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...disillusioned with the BJP's promises of an urban, middle class "India Shining" while they remained dirt poor. The stalled nuclear deal is a symptom of a deeper malaise in the current administration. Other key initiatives of Singh's are also in trouble: A ban on child labor looks toothless one year on, while a scheme to provide every household in India with at least 100 days of work has been dogged by chronic mismanagement and charges of graft. If such bread-and-butter initiatives can falter, then Singh - hailed as India's great liberalizer when he was finance chief...
...been taken against the regime by the international community. When members of the Security Council tried to censure the junta in January, their effort was vetoed by Russia and China. And even though the U.S. maintains sanctions against the regime, China's economic patronage renders them largely toothless...
...member.) "I think China doesn't want to join the commission because then there will be environmental expectations," says the International River Network's Middleton. "But when the biggest country at the source of the river isn't part of the commission, it makes the group basically toothless...
...simply more of the same? A year after deriding a proposed Republican lobbying reform bill as toothless and cosmetic, the bill Democrats are poised to finally pass, with Republican support, is similar to the measure they opposed last year...
...soliciting student input in crafting its hard-nosed recommendations, the College risks closing the door on the kinds of cultural changes that are needed to make club basements safer social spaces for undergraduates. Toothless, unilateral threats veiled in a thin layer of legalese are an unacceptable substitute for an inclusive process which includes social club leaders in evaluating how best to make their parties and their initiation practices safer for both their members and guests. After all, difficult though it may be for College bureaucrats to believe, social clubs have a vested interested in not killing off their members...