With about 57 percent of residents voting for it, the town of Fremont, Neb., has passed an ordinance aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration by banning hiring or renting property to illegals. The town now faces a long legal fight similar to that embroiling the state of Arizona after it recently enacted a law […]
June 23, 2010 at 11:25 am
General Stanley McChrystal met privately with President Obama over contemptuous remarks the general and his staff made about top administration officials in a magazine article. Shortly thereafter, Obama relieved the McChrystal of his command as head of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. International relations Professor Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army officer and authority on U.S. military […]
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Tagged Afghan situation, Afghanistan war, Andrew Bacevich, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, General Stanley McChrystal, NATO, New York Daily News, President Obama, Rolling Stone, United States Department of Defense, United States military
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Next week’s meeting of the Group of 20 industrial nations in Toronto will face competing efforts to deal with the fragile global economic recovery. International relations Professor Kevin Gallagher, currently a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, writes in a Financial Times commentary that developing a sovereign debt crisis management regime should be at […]
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Tagged Beijing, Boston University, BU CAS, College of Arts and Sciences, Financial Times, G-20, Group of 20, International Relations, Kevin Gallagher, sovereign debt crisis, Toronto, Tsinghua University
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The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal (r.), has been summoned to the White House to explain in person some controversial public remarks he made which were critical of the Obama administration. Political science Professor Graham Wilson, author of “Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective,” says presidential power […]
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Tagged Afghanistan, Afghanistan war; Rolling Stone, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Graham Wilson, Military, NATO, Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective, Political Science, Stanley McChrystal, US Armed Forces, White House
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June 21, 2010 at 12:37 pm
House and Senate conferees hope to wrap up this week the final version of financial regulatory reform legislation to send to President Obama, with chairmen Barney Frank and Chris Dodd delicately trying to compromises without losing votes for the overall package. What do about the trading of derivatives – the complex financial packages which helped sink […]
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Tagged Barney Frank, Blanche Lincoln, BU LAW, BU School of Law, Chrisopher Dodd, Cornelius Hurley, derivatives, Fed Board of Governors, financial regulatory reform, House of Represenatives, law school, Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law, President Obama, Senate
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Members of Congress came down hard on BP CEO Tony Hayward (r.) as he testified about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. But political science Professor Graham Wilson, author of “Business and Politics,” wondered why the spotlight over American’s worst-ever spill hasn’t shone on Transocean, BP’s partner in the Gulf of Mexico oil rig that exploded in […]
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Tagged April 2010, Boston University, BP, Business and Politics, Congress, Deepwater Horizon, Graham Wilson, Gulf coast, Gulf of Mexico, oil spill, Political Science, Tony Hayward, Transocean
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The newly elected Japanese ruling Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Naoto Kan (l.) has pledged to rein that nation’s huge debt, the world’s largest, calling for drastic tax reform including a hiking the sales tax. Public opinion polls show Japanese citizens prepared for tax increases and budget cuts if they can reduce the risk of […]
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Tagged Boston University, Democratic Party of Japan, East Asian political culture, economic problems, France, International Relations, Japan, Naoto Kan, Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Prime Minister of Japan, tax reform, Thomas Berger
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June 17, 2010 at 11:43 am
Israel announced a relaxation of the 3-year-old blockade of Gaza, promising to ease the importation of some goods by land but not offering to lift its navel embargo. The move came weeks after Israeli commandos killed nine people on an aid flotilla trying to breach the blockade. International relations Professor Augustus Richard Norton, author of “Hezbollah: A Short […]
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Tagged Augustus Richard Norton, flotilla, Gaza, Gaza blockade, Hezbollha: A Short History, International Relations, Israel, Israeli commandos, Middle East peace, Middle East politics, navel embargo, President Obama, United States
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June 17, 2010 at 10:34 am
Twenty-one of the best and brightest of this year’s Boston public high school graduates are the latest class of honorees in the Boston University Boston High School Scholarship Program, the largest and longest-running such program for urban public high school students in the nation. In ceremonies hosted by BU President Robert Brown and Mayor Thomas Menino, the […]
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Tagged "upward bound", Boston High School Scholarship Program, Boston Public Schools, Boston University, Boston University Class of 2014, BU President John Silber, BU President Robert Brown, full-tuition, John Silber, Mayor Menino, New Hampshire, scholarship, Thomas Menino
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On the heels of passing a controversial law involving screening illegal immigrants, the Arizona legislature is considering a bill that would deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants, despite the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that specifically grants naturalized citizenship to such children. Law Professor Susan Akram, an authority on immigration law, says getting such […]
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Tagged 14th Amendment, Arizona, Arizona immigration, Boston University, BU School of Law, Congress, Constitution, immigration law, law school, Senate, Susan Akram, U.S. Constitution. Fourteenth Amendment, undocumented immigrants, United States, US Constitution
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