Word: governmentã
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...solving our domestic problems, and that it will continue to be so. It will continue, Bok says, because a large majority of Americans say it is so. If government is then important, we must find what its problems are, and we must outline solutions. Who is it that causes government??€™s problems? Bok lines up the usual suspects: special interests, the media and elected officials. He concludes that the demonization of these three groups is exaggerated, citing a variety of studies that indicate this, while hedging his bets by citing others who disagree. It is Bok?...
Friedman’s decision comes after a contrary decision by U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Duggan concerning Michigan’s undergraduate program. Duggan found that the use of race as a factor in the undergraduate system was justified by the government??€™s compelling interest in the educational benefits of diversity. Students learn from each other as well as from professors, and a diverse student body adds to the student experience and the educational value of an institution. Affirmative action is a legitimate means of achieving this goal...
...only question was where he should stand trial. The Serbian government under President Vojislav Kostunica has resisted extraditing the former dictator to the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague, insisting that he be tried in Serbia for alleged crimes including corruption and abuse of power. Yet the Milosevic government??€™s atrocities against Muslims in Bosnia and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo are crimes against humanity, not only against the laws of Serbia, and he should confront his accusers in the international tribunal...
...Oklahoma, the discussion about apologies and reparations relates to a more recent tragedy: the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Oklahomans are asking how their riot happened and what they should do now. Debate over reparations for the Tulsa riot centers around the city government??€™s culpability in fueling the destruction...