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This is not the first time in its history that UBS has turned a blind eye to mass murder. While thousands of European Jews had deposited their savings at the bank in the 1930s, UBS refused to return those assets to victims’ families after World War II. It wasn’t until August 1998 that UBS finally agreed to compensate victims’ families. And even as the bank was negotiating the settlement with Jewish groups, UBS began to shred the World War II-era archives of a subsidiary that had maintained close ties to the Nazi...
...witch Madge (Melanie Atkins)—who had taken offense when James had ousted her from the wedding festivities earlier—gives James a magical scarf that will help him capture the sylph. Unfortunately, the scarf is poisoned, causing the sylph to lose her wings, go blind, and slowly die. At the end of the show Effie and James’ friend Gurn (John Lam) are married. “La Sylphide,” with its heart-wrenching ending, showed not only the beauty of chasing after an ideal, but also the losses of such a chase...
...However, the very suggestion that sports are somehow above vice is flawed. It seems odd that many sports fans can’t seem to accept PEDs, but are perfectly willing to turn a blind eye to the corrupting influence of gambling, collegiate athletics scandals, the business-first nature of most professional franchises, and the myriad of other problems that plague sports. Sports are not and have never been pure. Even regarding Bonds’ “asterisked” home-run record, too many baseball fans forget that the old home run king himself admitted to using PEDs...
...opinions about the justice of cannibalism. Likewise, I’m not sure what my biochemist blockmates are really gaining from their humanities classes other than cocktail party conversation. But are they really paying Harvard tuition to be able to bring up the Ming dynasty on a blind date...
...Indeed, the Supreme Court ruling requires that the Ministry of Health take full responsibility for the sex workers' safety and medical services. But the government has turned a blind eye to the recent events in El Alto, and has ignored the demands of the prostitutes. That, says the union, has left its members no option but to put their clients' health at risk until their security is guaranteed. Some sex workers have gone as far as mutilating themselves and sewing their lips together in order grab the nation's attention...