When President Barack Obama signed the health care bill two years ago, the legal challenges to the law were widely belittled as long shots — at best. But as the cases head to the Supreme Court this week, what looked to many like far-out legal arguments to undo “Obamacare” don’t seem so zany anymore. “If you don’t...
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The University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) could become the first mainstream higher education institute to become a private company.
UCLAN announced to staff last week that it is seeking to dissolve its corporate form to become a private company, raising fears among staff that the institution could become a for-profit enterprise
were exported; drugs and greed ruled; social awareness was replaced by political correctness, student activism by ambition, and real work by sitting in front of a PC clicking on investments.
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THE best news to come out of the Philippines in 2012—perhaps even better than the economic headlines—was probably the “framework agreement” between the...
Kanzlerin Merkel macht sich auf die Reise ins entfernte Chile, um beiderseitige Handelsbeziehungen zu etablieren. Trotz Euro-Krise, rund um den möglichen Austritt Großbritanniens aus der europäischen Gemeinschaft findet Angela Merkel Zeit für einen Kurzbesuch in Chile. Dabei geht es ein mögliches Freihandelsabkommen zwischen Deutschland und dem Andenland zu vereinbaren. Merkel auf wichtiger Handelsmission.
Darf der Sexismus, der immer noch eine bedeutende Rolle im Alltagsleben in Anspruch nimmt, öffentlich zur Schau gestellt werden? Warum müssen sich Frauen demgegenüber anzügliche Bemerkungen ihrer Kollegen gefallen lassen? Kann ein älter werdender Politiker vom Schlage eines Rainer Brüderle es sich leisten einer jungen Journalistin auf die Pelle zu rücken? Fragen über Fragen, auf die man nur mit dem Kopf schütteln kann. Über den Vorbildcharakter unserer Führungsgrößen.
Our language, much like everything these days, has been hacked. Fuzzy, contentious, and complex ideas have been stripped of their subversive connotations and replaced by cleaner, shinier, and emptier alternatives; long-running debates about politics, rights, and freedoms have been recast in the seemingly natural language of economics, innovation, and efficiency.
Progressives now find themselves in an awkward position of simultaneously wishing Barack Obama well, but feeling dismayed by his policies on some key issues, most notably the banking bailout. If this were a normal economic situation, the posture of semi-opposition would not be that big a deal. We would simply gratefully accept the decent policies and keep pressing for bolder ones. But a failure to revive the banking system would be Obama's Vietnam. It would wreck everything else.
Chopra: I think Mr. Obama has a real opportunity here, but a challenging opportunity, a creative opportunity. Get rid of the phrase "war on terrorism." Ask for a creative solution in which we all participate. Because it's an oxymoron. It's an oxymoron, Larry, a war on war, a war on terrorism.
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The framed photos that adorn Crystal Wang's expansive office are a who's who of China's leadership. In one President Hu Jintao is shaking her hand while Premier Wen Jiabao smiles next to her.
Richard Wagner hat mit dem Anarchisten Michael Alexandrowitsch Bakunin Seite an Seite auf den Barrikaden in Dresden für die bürgerlichen Rechte gekämpft. ...
The idea that you can nail your opinion to some point on a spectrum, and someone else can read out your personal set of policies from its location, is worse than professional astrology