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...rational legal system, the school would be held accountable for its errors. But Virginia Tech is a state institution, and Virginia is a state where the doctrine of sovereign immunity remains quite robust. That doctrine, a relic of English common law, essentially says the state can do no wrong because the state creates the law and thus cannot be subject to it. Many states have relaxed sovereign immunity and made it possible for victims of, say, botched operations to sue state hospitals. But Krauss of George Mason University says the Virginia Tech victims' families would probably have to seek...
Nothing makes a TV executive queasier than the word telethon. Jerry Lewis' efforts have done wondrous things, no doubt, for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, but as entertainment, they're must-flee TV. So when Simon Fuller, American Idol's creator and sovereign, told Fox executives he wanted to give one week of his prime-time, never-fail, hitmaking show over to fund raising--to make it a sort of telethon--he knew what they were thinking, and it was a word...
...been these past 50 years. The E.U. is a 1950s solution to 1930s problems. It is a cumbersome, profoundly undemocratic, unitary system of government by unelected bureaucrats. Endemic corruption is beyond repair. Is that the price of easier travel and cleaner beaches? Free trade and freely negotiated agreements among sovereign nations - that's what we need. Not this lumbering, inefficient dinosaur that has too much in common with the former Soviet Union. The Europeans are neighbors of us Brits. They should be our friends. They cannot be our masters. Many Europeans want us to leave the door open when...
...political opposition in Hong Kong, the biggest issue is universal suffrage, whereby the Chief Executive and all of the Legislative Council are elected by popular vote. Yet Hong Kong's political system was never meant to be a carbon copy of any sovereign democracy. Unlike other colonies, Hong Kong did not become independent. It became part of a nation-China-and was given not full but a "high degree" of autonomy, under the principle of "one country, two systems." The level of this autonomy is set out in the Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitution under China...
...Contrary to the grim predictions made about Hong Kong before the 1997 handover, the territory's economy and infrastructure have never been better, the rule of law remains paramount, business practices and regulations are transparent, and corruption is virtually nonexistent. Hong Kong is not a stand-alone sovereign democracy, but it has thrived precisely because of "one country, two systems." Hong Kong works...