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...Guantánamo." The U.K.'s highest court of appeal in December declared that the measures unlawfully discriminate against non-British citizens; the laws don't apply to U.K. nationals. In response, Clarke wants to expand the law to encompass Britons, too. But instead of prison, suspects will be subject to house arrest and other "control orders" like electronic tagging and curfews in cases where prosecution or deportation is impossible. "First we go down the prosecution route," Clarke said, "but in the event that we can't do that, I'm not prepared to ... allow these people to succeed...
Briski, who is almost as much the film's subject as the children are, is seen arranging interviews for them at schools that offer opportunities to leave the brothels. But the mothers are not universally encouraging about escape. They seem to believe that this brutal, poverty-stricken life is all their offspring deserve...
...payroll tax rate, set at 12.4%, but critics argue that would disproportionately affect working-class and middle-class families. Others, including Peter Diamond of M.I.T. and Peter Orszag of the Brookings Institution, want to raise the ceiling on taxable income. Today only the first $90,000 of income is subject to payroll tax. Such a change would generate more revenue for Social Security but affect only 6% of the work force...
...universities subject to the new language in grants, the devil was in the details. The change sparked an outcry from leaders of many leading research universities, including Harvard, who charged that the restrictions threatened to stifle campus debate on controversial issues like the Israel-Palestine conflict...
...just as for oil and soybeans, the labor market is also subject to the rules of supply and demand?and the Pearl River Delta is facing a manpower shortage of 2 million workers, according to the Labor Ministry survey. Manufacturing capacity has expanded so rapidly in the past several years that the stream of migrants from the poor countryside is no longer large enough to replenish the labor pool. Rising agricultural incomes in recent years have started to keep many would-be migrant workers back on the farm...