... about the text, theorists insist that the warp and woof ofconstitutional law is still traceable to the written document and must be, given that the document and only the document counts as the ... endorsement ofthe divine and hereditary right of English kings to rule, his promotion of accumulated wealth in the hands ofthe few, and above all his disdain for common people and for the idea of government ... historical understandings ofthe practices that constitutional rights prohibited, on the one hand, and historical understandings ofthe practices that rights did not proscribe, on the other, and contends...
... Bush, and Barack Obama and on those they chose to serve in their cabinets and in the Executive Office in the White House and to run regulatory agencies, including the Federal Reserve andthe Securities ... leveraged (the ratio ofthe loan to the true value ofthe asset is very high) But the belief that the price ofthe bubble asset will rise even further leads to even laxer lending standards, magnifying ... in their response to the challenges of financial innovation andthe global “savings glut.” They allowed the crisis to develop and inhibited response after the crisis was front and center in the...
... cosmopolitanism, and permanence.50 They were the visible symbols ofthe confidence andthe credit generated by Forstall and others *** The construction of so many bank buildings in the 1830s was a result of ... traces the evolution of this event into competing versions ofthe Panic of 1837 that all lost sight ofthe experience of panic But this tale of panic’s disappearance is the end and not the beginning ... land and slaves had become in the hinterlands of New Orleans Located at the mouth ofthe Mississippi, the port of New Orleans received produce from throughout the South and West to be sold and...
... limit on the supply ofthe tranches that were most in demand the AAA tranches—because the starting points ofthe rating models were predictions ofthe rate of default on the entire pool Had the rating ... modern politics, which of course are not scholarly Scholars try to understand the past andthe present, not predict the future But in thepoliticsof modern democracies—that is, in thepoliticsof ... with the analyses then on offer At the time, there were (understandably) only hypotheses that lacked evidence, and many of them, while equally plausible, contradicted each other Additionally, there...
... below the CEO—both to expand their knowledge ofthe company and CEO succession candidates, and to increase other top-level executives’ exposure to the thinking ofthe board andthe board process The ... final responsibility for the functioning ofthe firm Most important, it sets the rules ofthe game for the CEO The job ofthe board is to hire, fire, and compensate the CEO, and to provide high-level ... Chairman ofthe Board It is common in U.S corporations for the CEO also to hold the position of Chairman ofthe Board The function ofthe Chairman is to run board meetings and oversee the process of...
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... interest in nationality and self-determination The Greek crisis ofthe 1820s, the Bulgarian atrocities ofthe 1870s, the problem of Ireland, andthe fate of India and other colonial possessions ... overarching themes in this field: the ideology ofthe nation andthe relevance of political ideas to nationalist politics, the sources of national identity and communal solidarity, andthe legitimacy of ... sentiments, the requirements ofthe liberal conscience, andthe imperatives of international order Liberalism and Self-Determination The problems of explaining the origins ofthe national idea and the...
... possibility of realizing agency, despite what they see as the unpredictable influence ofthe subconscious, on the one hand, andthe regulation of thought and action ofthe self, on the other hand, through ... on the one hand, an abandonment ofthe object of one’s passionate attachment or love and, on the other hand, letting go ofthe idea of one’s love for this object.32 As such, the melancholy of ... took the various versions of my courses ‘‘Freedom andthe Discontents of Modernity’’ and ‘ The Spirit ofPolitics ’ were exacting in their intellectual demands and challenges Their enthusiasm and...
... used to compare the effect of ET on the duration of weaning and on the total duration of MV Variables were included in the final models if they were associated with the duration of weaning or MV ... between ET and duration of weaning andthe total duration of MV The 21 patients in the ET group were demographically similar to the 53 patients in the ST group, except for the greater number of patients ... performed by the open surgical technique in the operating room and there were no deaths attributable to the procedure It is not clear whether the safety ofthe percutaneous approach should alter the decision...
... disorder Like the pervasive effects of culture, distortion of consciousness lies at the heart of both the individual experience of mental disorder andthe effect of it on the embedding ofthe individual ... or the other ofthe teams, or separate counts ofthe number of bounce and areal passes During the game, a figure in a full gorilla suit appears, faces the camera, beats its breast, and walks off ... [11] Invoking the spirit ofthe Shannon-McMillan Theorem, essentially the zero-error limit ofthe Rate Distortion Theorem discussed in the Mathematical Appendix, allows definition of an adiabatically,...
... ofthe body andthe smooth flow ofthe meridians It pointed out by the balance ofthe bioelectric properties, according to the rule Yin- Yang balance ofthe Yin-Yang theory 4.2 THE CHANGING OF ... cure This shows the awareness ofthe ancients about the appearance ofthe disease and acupuncture have effects to harmonize Qi and Xue, reset balance of Yin and Yang is correct and there is a scientific ... suitable for the treatment of LBP kidney failure type - The effect of EA in the treatment of LBP kidney failure type on clinical: To confirm the effect of electro acupuncture in the treatment of LBP...
... element in the Enron andthe other recent accounting scandals was not a major flaw in the standards themselves, but primarily a failure either ofthe company to comply with the standards or ofthe regulator ... short years ago, the American system of corporate disclosure the combination of accounting and auditing standards, the professionalism of auditors, andthe rules and practices of corporate governance ... enacting most of them, and others, in the Corporate Responsibility Act of 2002 Policymakers were not the only ones to take quick action in the wake ofthe scandals The major stock exchanges the New...
... understanding this transformation, and mapping the contours of these emerging practices of governing in the context of failure? In other words, how we study the how of global governance? One ofthe ... ofthe 1990s, including the Mexican and Asian financial crises andthe recognition of a failed decade of aid to sub-Saharan Africa, were viewed as signs of profound failure in the governance of ... and concerns – such as the political sources of policy failure, andthe problem of risk and contingency – became the subject of intense intellectual and practical preoccupation The products of...
... constant reiteration ofthe rhetoric but also through the unquestioned premising ofthe motives and objectives ofthe policy on the idea of progress Progress is the trump card andthe standard recommended ... anyway the language of commerce in the Orient, was the language of great literature, and according to some of these proponents, the language of democracy Finally, the claims of eagerness on the ... enterprise of producing knowledge for the justification ofthe colonial project and to the identification of possible spaces of resistance andthe assertion of identity and even nationhood In understanding...
... This is, of course, in contrast to the “good intentions ofthe United States andthe serious purpose ofthe administration to benefit and advance the inhabitants [of the Philippines].260 These good ... clear proof ofthe sentiments ofthe Filipino people for independence and an indication also of their sentiments about the American colonial government and their policies On the issue of English ... that are themselves also premised on the metanarrative ofthe hierarchy of races and on the discourse ofthe West as the pristine model of progress, modernization, science, and democracy The Education...
... in the revolution and in the context of their other anti-colonial agitations at the time, are the irrefutable evidence ofthe longevity and continuity ofthe cultural and linguistic ideals ofthe ... mention the fusionist option 348 Ibid 345 126 The acknowledgement ofthe role ofthe revolution in establishing the idea of a single nation andthe idea of Tagalog as the language that binds the ... giants, talismans, andthe wondrous kings and queens) and would have mothers teach their children history andthe story of heroes and martyrs of freedom instead The great civilizations of Europe that...
... from their writing and their lives, the attempt to follow in the steps ofthe writers ofthe Propaganda Movement andofthe Katipunan .and each writer during this time did not avoid the duty of ... one’s language and inevitably one’s nation: the mother andthe child The use ofthe image ofthe mother (ina) to refer to the nation (Inang Bayan), the language (Inang Wika) andthe race or heritage ... ‘Pasion,’ in the ‘Novena’ and in the ‘corrido’ and awit (traditional metrical romances) or at the meetings ofthe lowly andthe peasants or in books of old that tell ofthe lives ofthe saints The lowly...
... into the epistemic formations that were the result of, among other things, the experience of colonialism The experience ofthe nation is an experience of struggle, ofthe threat of annihilation of ... because the mother does not leave the child and gently sways the cradle till the child falls asleep The duyan is of course always twinned with the lullaby and this of course recalls one ofthe most ... Osias and I had a friendly debate in a series of articles in the Manila Press over the question of whether or not the local vernacular should be used as the medium of instruction.” The name of the...
... Ilustrado Politics, and Julian Go’s American Empire andthePoliticsof Meaning all track the character and role and political education ofthe Philippine elite in the shaping ofthe nation during the ... light, and, especially for the purposes of appreciating the Philippine understanding ofthe relation of language and culture to the nation, features the vital position of language and culture in the ... the abolition ofthe ruling class at the end ofthe Anglo-Burmese wars and because the British policy for the peopling ofthe bureaucracy favored other ethnicities (Indians and Chinese)588, there...
... For the purposes of this thesis and for understanding the discourse of language created by American colonial officials for the uses of constructing a colony, these theories ofthe nation and ... statement that “at the base ofthe modern social order stands not the executioner but the professor”20 and that for the creation andthe preservation ofthe nation the monopoly of legitimate education ... situate these campaigns within the debate between the discourse of nations and nationalism as, on the one hand, a modern creation and, on the other, of discourses that challenge it and offer alternatives...