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...addition, the government would have to take over banks that were insolvent by any definition other than that of wishful-thinking Japanese bankers. Last week, however, Takenaka unveiled the details of his plan?Xand it became clear that Japan's latest attempt at reform would be yet another toothless assortment of half-measures, imprecise benchmarks and overly generous deadlines. In other words, the banks were off the hook. 'This time, I thought they were serious about fixing the banks,' says Richard Jerram, chief economist at ING Barings in Tokyo. 'I guess they were only joking.' Only two weeks ago, Takenaka...
...ACSR, with one undergraduate representative, is a toothless creature of the Corporation. The committee functions solely in an advisory capacity; it meets extremely infrequently and in secret. If the administration wants to showcase the ACSR as an adequate forum in which students can influence Harvard’s investment policies, it needs to give the committee the actual power to control Harvard’s shares in companies that are deemed to be acting irresponsibly. The ACSR should be one of many avenues to bring forward concerns like HAC’s, and the committee should be reformed to make...
...conflict of interest as both owner of Italy's private national television broadcasters and Prime Minister, which gives him political control of the public broadcasters as well. The bill, which lets him keep his properties as long as he doesn't actively manage them, has been widely derided as toothless. Yet Italian voters don't seem too bothered by his conflicts of interest. A graver threat is the imminent showdown with CGIL, the country's largest labor union, over the government's efforts to trim Italy's job-protection benefits. While two more moderate unions agreed to a labor-reform...
...French fashion, up and down in a blanket. But clearly it is more than that. This doll man flopping bonelessly in the air reflects Goya's sense of the power of women--the civilian version, so to speak, of the dreadful potency of the witches and the toothless hags in the "Black Paintings" and of the evil old celestinas or procuresses who accompany his beautiful hookers on balconies or the pavements of the Paseo del Prado...
...Scorpion King’s expected high voltage action begins with the film’s very first scene, when the close-up face of a barbaric, toothless man is suddenly whipped from the screen by a flying projectile, a presumably sharp and heavy object that kills him. Happily, projectiles are a motif through the movie, as The Rock and his buddies kill dozens upon dozens of baddies with increasing creativity...