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...part of the reason why Swift’s situation is so controversial is that few men ever have to deal with this type of scenario in such a public forum. Surely scores of male politicians have been in office while their wives have had children, yet they are almost never asked how they will balance their job responsibilities with the needs of a new family member. Even in this day and age, it’s assumed that a woman will be there to pick up the slack...
There are, of course, several problems with this scenario. There are transportation costs, although with this magical machine we can temporarily do without them. There might be unequal information, where we send more and dirtier grime than they were expecting, but presumably Los Angeles would be required by contract to be up-front. There might be a “moral hazard,” in which Angelenos will litter more, knowing that their actions will have less effect; but the same could occur after more frequent street sweeping. And there might be agent problems, in which the Calcutta government...
...issue at the end of the day. If this were a pre-conviction trial, it would be obvious to everyone that the defendant has right to his own DNA testing and materials. So shouldn't it be common sense that we should extend that right to a post-conviction scenario? How can it not be helpful to correct the mistake of imprisoning an innocent person...
...Israelis at all concerned about putting Syria's young President Assad into a corner, where he's either forced to retaliate or else is weakened in the eyes of his country's hard-liners, neither scenario being good for Israel...
...labels' dream is that you will go to a portal like AOL, discover any music you like and move it anywhere you choose, in a process so seamless that you won't mind paying for it monthly. The nightmare scenario: a poor selection of music in confusing and conflicting file formats that will drive you underground to a Napster clone like Aimster. So every portal needs to do a deal with MusicNet and Duet--at the very least. "None of these services can survive without content from all five major labels," says Dannielle Romano, music analyst at Jupiter Media Metrix...