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...Alicja Tysiac 25,000 euros, or about $33,250, in damages after doctors refused to grant her permission to terminate her pregnancy despite serious risk to her eyesight. Tysiac, who suffers from severe myopia, became pregnant for the third time in 2000. Three doctors told her she could go blind if she gave birth but, contravening Polish law, refused to write her a certificate that would authorize an abortion. After giving birth, Tysiac's eyesight has worsened to the extent that she cannot see objects more than five feet away. She now receives a monthly disability pension equivalent...
...saying, by implication is a lot: that you must not wage wars like the one that has developed in Iraq with troops who don't have enough translators to understand the local language and have no desire to listen to what's being said to them anyway; that the blind reliance on half-baked "intel" is a bad idea, especially when its backed by a moronically bullying attitude (co-director Tucker was, by happenstance, the cameraman accompanying the raid on Yunis's house), that there is nothing approaching justice (or even simple sensitivity) in the way that...
...Frankie” Petrosino ’02 delved into the lack of ethnic diversity in the theater community. Fred Hood ’02, who directed “The Importance of Being Earnest” that year, felt minorities were unrealistic in their expectation of color-blind casting. “Theater is an unfair business,” he said. “Minorities inevitably will not have equal opportunities in casting because most plays are written for a white, realist audience.” Petrosino also cited the alienation of common casting and the niche groups...
...federal government as well. Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-Calif), whose district includes much of Hollywood and America’s entertainment industry, more recently began a hearing on digital piracy in the world of higher education. Berman inveighed against universities, suggesting they “have turned a blind eye to piracy.” Whether or not the objects of his scorn are actively supporting copyright violations, it is more than slightly disingenuous to suggest that colleges and universities account for all, or even most, of the digital piracy of music. It is a problem that occurs...
...that he opposes genetic manipulation of all kinds. His point, he said, was that if a hormone therapy were developed for fetuses that would help them be born straight rather than gay, he would support its use, just as he would support medical treatment to give sight to the blind fetus...