Proponents of BBA, who understood that these policies did not, in fact, address the root causes of problems in schools serving disadvantaged students, were joined by others who saw the damage the policies were doing in their schools and communities.
It's not clear at this point exactly how damaging the policy change might be to the continued functioning of Privacy Shield — that depends on how important the extensibility of the U.S. Privacy Act to non-U.S.
The exemption should only be granted if it involves "no significant damage" to the policy considerations that gave rise to the law in the first place.
Running to over 100 pages, the report details the characteristics of each weapon - as well as possible collateral damage and the policy implications of its use.
It is our job to make people care, and to put a human face to the Don't Ask Don't Tell conversation, and to engage people on a more grassroots level so that they can get a good idea of the damage that the policy does.
The suit seeks the return of all fees paid to the defendants, compensation for actual damages because the policy sold was not the one negotiated for, and punitive damages.
Actually, that dead-cat-bounce effect is an important factor in the new Jorda-Taylor analysis of austerity: they find that austerity tends to be imposed in depressed economies, and depressed economies have historically tended to recover, so the dead-cat bounce factor obscures the amount of damage the austerity policies really do.
Unfortunately, this progress cannot undo everything that went before: President Bush's disastrous decision to rush into the invasion without Security Council endorsement, the ineptly planned occupation and all the damage those policies have done to Iraq and the Middle East and to American relationships around the world.
He's got another provocative piece of work underway that will argue, as he put it to me not long ago, that the "damage of the policies in the nineteen-nineties is probably greater than what I portrayed in my book".
