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...many legal experts fear that if FAIR wins a “constitutional showdown,” the high court might also scrap other laws that place conditions on schools that take federal funds—such as the 1964 Title VI statute barring racial discrimination, and the 1972 Title IX law against sex bias...
...many legal experts fear that if FAIR wins a “constitutional showdown,” the high court might also scrap other laws that place conditions on schools that take federal funds—such as the 1964 Title VI statute barring racial discrimination, and the 1972 Title IX law against sex bias...
...some departments," says Estens. "Bureaucrats have trouble understanding my psychological game plan." To Estens' mind, the AES is "best practice indigenous employment policy" that politicians support - but which baldly reveals the failings of bureaucrats. He's scathing about the good-hearted, impotent officials who "fund, cut and then scrap" policies that need time to grow. Estens senses there's a mindset in government that "Aboriginal employment is an intractable problem." He claims corporate Australia has lost confidence in old-style government programs and is looking for ways to bypass existing structures. "Business wants to help Aboriginal people," he says...
...have now begun to slide. In Ethiopia, Zenawi has sent troops onto the streets to stop opposition supporters protesting the results of a general election last May. In Uganda, an increasingly dictatorial Museveni announced two weeks ago that he will run for office again, following Parliament's decision to scrap term limits that would have forced him to retire. That long-expected bulletin came just days after his main opponent was thrown in prison on charges - vehemently denied - of treason and rape. Demonstrations have been temporarily banned. So, Achebe's lament still holds true, then? No. Fixing Africa was never...
Believe it or not, the imminent dissolution of one-third of our student government is no cause for alarm. The Undergraduate Council’s (UC) new motion to scrap the Campus Life Committee (CLC), one of the council’s three standing committees, is one that we heartily endorse. The CLC’s successes—Movie Nights and shuttles—have been outnumbered by their more costly failures. Moreover, the way committee choice is based on UC election results means that the CLC is at least partially staffed with students that aren?...