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...parliamentarians, who were defecting to Yanukovych?s better funded and organized Party of the Regions and its coalition partners. That coalition now has 258 votes against the Orange alliance's 202. If it musters 300 deputies in the Rada, it will have enough to rewrite the constitution and abolish the Presidency...
...teens raises an old question: Should we now be prepared to reward them with more rights? A new book by a prominent psychologist says we should. In fact, Robert Epstein, Harvard Ph.D., former editor in chief of Psychology Today and host of Sirius' Psyched! program, argues that we should abolish the very concept of adolescence. He's not alone: in 2004, Oxford University Press published The End of Adolescence, by psychiatrist Philip Graham, who argued that British teens deserved more respect and less condescension from adults. But Epstein's book, The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen...
...among them: Prakash Singh Badal, leader of a breakaway faction of the Akali Dal party, which rules Punjab state, and Gurcharan Singh Tohra, the powerful head of the state committee that manages Sikh temples. Tohra, who has been accused of appeasing terrorists, was detained after he announced he would abolish the special security force that since last summer has prevented the use of the Golden Temple as a haven for terrorists...
...wants Turkey to abolish that law, Article 301, which is used by nationalist prosecutors and lawyers to charge writers and journalists with "insulting Turkishness." At Dink's funeral today, many in the procession carried posters that read "301 is the real killer." "His murder has started some soul-searching," says Hakan Altinay, director of the Open Society Institute in Turkey. "Turks need to look at themselves and ask how they could have bred the xenophobia and paranoia that would lead a kid to do this. Everyone has some degree of responsibility here...
Last week, Yale University announced that it would keep its early admissions program, going against the precedent set by Harvard, which will abolish early admissions starting with the Class...