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...rights advocacy organization, in 2006.Leach’s positions have occasionally brought him into conflict with his own party leadership. In 1996, he voted against the GOP’s nominee for speaker of the House, citing ethics concerns about then-Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.).Despite those tensions, Leach helped to push through one of the biggest banking reforms in U.S. history, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999. The legislation allowed banks to affiliate freely with securities and insurance firms and included new privacy regulations for financial institutions.“Jim always had good reasons...
...could sustain such growth, or if it was feasible for it to stretch itself in so many directions. Director general Thompson's new plans for the BBC, which he calls Creative Future, reduce staffing and budgets but leave the range of activities pretty much intact. There's a constant tension between the BBC's aim of making what Byford calls "brilliant, outstanding, special, stand-out content that raises the bar of broadcasting" and the Corporation's need to justify its existence by attracting mass audiences, which tend to eschew high culture and serious factual programming. Populism has the upper hand...
...discussion hosted by the Radcliffe Union of Students last Wednesday raised the idea of an inherent tension between attempts by the administration to curb its liability and efforts to promote student safety...
...fact that theirs [blacks’] intelligence is the same as ours—whereas the testing says not really” is clearly out of line. Interracial differences in intelligence have little basis in scientific fact and Watson’s flippant statement solely serves to exacerbate racial tension. For that matter, this is not the first time that Watson’s somewhat radical views have made headlines: In 2003 he received flak for arguing that women should be allowed to abort fetuses if genetic testing reveals they have a predisposition for homosexuality. But while Watson would...
Indeed, not only for Asians but for any immigrant community, it is difficult to tread the line between ethnic assimilation and self-preservation. Academics have attempted to describe and define this tension in many ways, most famously with the metaphor of the American “melting pot.” A crude assimilationist model of this ideal might have us believe that foreigners arrive in the United States via some sort of cultural liquidation sale, ready to absorb into a gloopy, grey and nondescript soup characterized primarily by football, Big Macs and turkey stuffing. A more preservationist version might...