Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

  • -- Elliot Lee Richardson 李理查森

虽然每一项法律任务都需要这一技能,但在以一种适当响应人类需要和困境的方式制定公共政策方面,这一技能尤其重要。问题总是:一般规则在实践中如何工作?

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Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.

在过去的十年里,经济学家们似乎在经济政策上有着广泛的共识,货币主义者和凯恩斯主义者之间的旧分歧显然是由事件解决的。但过去两年的大衰退改变了一切。

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

我认为,通过和平手段来调整国际问题最终将通过控制各国和各国人民的舆论力量来消除战争、维护世界和平。

My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two.

我妈妈得了类风湿性关节炎。我不想失去跳起来、在房间里走动的能力,也不想失去用我已经习惯了的精力四处走动的能力。这对我来说比一两个皱纹重要得多。

They're all important now. This was a great game. They came back. We came back. It was a good win. You can't get enough of them.

他们现在都很重要。这是一场伟大的比赛。他们回来了。我们回来了。这是一场不错的胜利。你怎么也吃不够。

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

我要抚养一个孩子,而且是公开的。媒体创造了这些戏剧,而我的生活中却没有。

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

是时候让科学和医学,而不是政治和花言巧语,引导我们制定好的、健全的政策了。