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...first won office in 1996. It's a policy as controversial as it is implacable - and it has seldom stirred more debate than since the revelation on Feb. 4 that a mentally ill Australian woman, Cornelia Rau, had been held for four months at South Australia's remote Baxter detention center after claiming to be an illegal immigrant from Germany. Among Australia's long-term detainees are those who have been denied refugee status; some, like Kashmiri Peter Qasim, who has been held for nearly seven years because India will not accept him without any identification papers, could spend...
...first put into detention, he thought it would be "two or three months and then I could be released to be a good community member for Australia." It would be four and a half years before his case was finally decided. South Australian lawyer Claire O'Connor says the Baxter detainees she represents routinely wait more than a year for court judgments, of which they may have several. The troubles of one 21-year-old Afghani who won his case late last year after four years locked up is, she says, typical: "He can't sleep...
...Anne Baxter plays a an aspiring actress who will do anything to get ahead, including carefully climbing her way into the inner circle of the biggest Broadway star of the time (played by superstar Bette Davis). Luckily, she has more than pluck on her side. She also has a cynical big-name critic on her side (George Saunders) who understands the game better than anyone else and is bringing her into the big-leagues for his own murky reasons. All About Eve is billed as the ultimate backstage story, and it deserves the recognition. A fun and crass and campy...
...Blau is Baxter professor of pharmacology and director of the Baxter Laboratory of Genetic Pharmacology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. After taking her bachelor’s degree from the University of York, in England, she received an A.M. in 1970 and a Ph.D. in 1975 from Harvard in molecular biology...
...convince Americans of the intrinsic rightness of its position by presenting them with a fait accompli. Harvard is not alone, though; many scientists elsewhere forge ahead with stem cell research, insensible to ethical objections, and this is justified with the rhetoric of progressivism. Helen M. Blau, director of the Baxter Laboratory in Genetic Pharmacology at Stanford University School of Medicine, frets that as “leaders of biomedical research,” American scientists on the whole are “falling behind.” Such talk of progress obscures the ethical questions—some...