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"W.E.": Portrait of the playgirl who won a king
I'm almost always happy to see a movie about a woman. It follows, then, that I should be doubly happy this early in the new year that The Weinstein Co. has given us not one, but two biopics about a pair of the most polarizing figures in 20th-century England. Margaret Thatcher is the subject of Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady; Wallis Simpson of Madonna's W.E.
Source: www.philly.com

Education Select Commitee propose to pay teachers according to performance
CMPO research supports a report published by the Education Select Committee which proposes to pay teachers based on their performance.
Source: www.bristol.ac.uk

Highs, lows at the old Oscars
'So tonight, enjoy yourselves," Billy Crystal greeted the audience at the 84th Academy Awards on Sunday night, "because nothing can take the sting out of the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues." Deft. Very deft.
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Professor Paul Gregg comments on radical shifts in Britain’s welfare system
Workers claiming state help with childcare and housing costs will be expected to seek longer hours, or risk sanctions that could include loss of benefits or a requirement to undergo training, in a radical shift in Britain’s welfare system. Paul Gregg comments in the Financial Times. The proposals will make it one of the most demanding regimes in the world, say experts.
Source: www.bristol.ac.uk

Two hunky guys vying for one smart-mouthed heroine
Tom Hardy, the strapping British actor, made quite an impression in Inception and Warrior by confidently flexing his muscles and sardonic smile.
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Seeking just-right American dream
George and Linda (Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston) are not living the dream but it is, tantalizingly, within reach. They've just bought a "micro-loft" (you'd call it a studio) in the West Village. George is about to bag a promotion. Surely Linda will sell her documentary (about penguins with cancer) to HBO.
Source: www.philly.com

CMPO members feature in latest issue of ESRC magazine 'Society Now'
CMPO members Professor Simon Burgess and Lindsey Macmillan feature in the latest issue of Society Now, the ESRC's magazine.
Source: www.bristol.ac.uk

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Locke v. Davey

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A Clarification of the Constitution’s Application Abroad: Making the "Impracticable and Anomalous" Standard More Practicable and Less Anomalous

This Article explores how to apply the “impracticable and anomalous” standard, which is the test that courts have used in determining whether and how the Constitution applies to U.S. conduct abroad. Under this test, the Constitution constrains U.S. conduct abroad unless it would be impracticable and anomalous to do so. The “impracticable and anomalous” standard has been implicitly applied since the Insular Cases, a group of cases decided in the early 20th century, and explicitly applied since 1957 in Reid v. Covert, but it is still unclear what the standard means, even after the Supreme Court’s landmark 2008 decision applying the test in Boumediene v. Bush to determine whether and how the Suspension Clause applies to U.S. conduct in Guantanamo Bay.

Indeed, the syntactic structure of the “impracticable and anomalous” standard is still ambiguous, as the Court has not clarified whether it is a disjunctive or conjunctive standard, and there is also confusion about the standard’s semantic content, since the Court has provided little insight into what the words “impracticable” and “anomalous” mean in this context. With so many ambiguities, the doctrine is itself impracticable, because judges cannot apply it objectively and predictably, and it is also anomalous in the Court’s constitutional jurisprudence, because although many judicial doctrines contain some ambiguity, it is difficult to think of one whose semantic and syntactic structure is this amorphous.

Although there has been little scholarly inquiry into how to apply the standard, the issue is now heating up, as Gerald Neuman and Christina Duffy Burnett, two leading lights on the Constitution’s transnational applicability, have recently written significant articles on how they believe courts do and should apply the standard. But despite the enhanced interest in the issue, Neuman and Burnett agree that “a full elaboration and defense of [the standard] has yet to be written.”

This Article undertakes that challenge to become the first “full elaboration and defense of” the standard, and in the process, to make it more practicable as a judicial doctrine and less anomalous in the Court’s constitutional jurisprudence.

Source: works.bepress.com

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The state of charitable giving in the UK
CMPO research into UK charitable giving is mentioned in The Guardian online.
Source: www.bristol.ac.uk

Gasol leads Lakers past Hornets, 93-91
Gasol leads Lakers past Hornets, 93-91

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Firefighters: Resident who died was told to go
Firefighters: Resident who died was told to go

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Professor Paul Gregg comments on radical shifts in Britain’s welfare system
Workers claiming state help with childcare and housing costs will be expected to seek longer hours, or risk sanctions that could include loss of benefits or a requirement to undergo training, in a radical shift in Britain’s welfare system. Paul Gregg comments in the Financial Times. The proposals will make it one of the most demanding regimes in the world, say experts.
Source: www.bristol.ac.uk

Faried scores 27 points, Nuggets rout Warriors
Faried scores 27 points, Nuggets rout Warriors

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Gasol, Gay lead Grizzlies past Clippers
Gasol, Gay lead Grizzlies past Clippers

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Man survives 4th-floor leap after deputies knock
Man survives 4th-floor leap after deputies knock

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