Word: roberts
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...Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rhamlin@fas.harvard.edu...
Whereas many see unfair or poorly implemented legislation as a problem endemic of developing nations, Dr. Ann Seidman and Dr. Robert B. Seidman ’41 argued in a discussion Tuesday night that laws can be the springboard for solutions...
...can’t simply pass a law telling the resources to go from the wealthy to the local population,” said Robert Seidman said, who, like his wife, is a professor at Boston University Law School. “Although Non-Governmental Organizations and education can facilitate improvement as well, the state is the nation’s largest employer in most of the nations in which we’ve worked,” he said. “Legislation is the clear way to enhance and solidify these changes...
...that a bill works if it actually induces the behavior it prescribes and if that effectively helps resolve the targeted social problem,” Robert Seidman said...
...White House logic that a decision on sending further troops would have to wait for the election debacle to be resolved is faulty, however. And Defense Secretary Robert Gates was among those willing to point that out. "We're not just going to sit on our hands, waiting for the outcome of this election and for the emergence of a government in Kabul," Gates said Tuesday. "The outcome of the elections and the problems with the elections have complicated the situation for us. But the reality is, it's not going to be complicated one day and simple the next...