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...cards. Despite its popularity, the law has drawn fire from officials in some neighboring countries, who argue that it violates their sovereignty and discriminates against non-ethnic Hungarians. "This law is part of an attempt to reclaim old territories," says Gheorghe Funar, the mayor of Cluj-Napoca, whose civic initiatives include banning bilingual signs and painting everything from park benches to flagpoles in Romanian red, blue and yellow. "They will be defeated if they...
...pretty well-organized booklet of articles and health tips. Sure, preference is given to college basketball coaches and obscenely hot models, but flip through the pages and you’ll also find genuinely newsworthy exposés on everything from the Taliban to declining civic community. Throw in some specs on the latest cars and gadgets, maybe a recipe and a wine of the month or a piece of short fiction and—ba-da-bing—you’ve got a men’s magazine...
...what really matters is that a good proposal is getting off the ground. Sept. 11 unleashed a flood of civic emotions, as each of us was forced to consider whether we would have been brave enough to stay behind to help an injured colleague. The first chance to turn the Selfish Generation into something more like the Greatest Generation was missed last fall when Bush urged us to return to normality--at the mall, the cineplex and Disneyland. With the unveiling of Freedom Corps, the President has a second chance to tap that well of compassion and finally get last...
...South African Medical Association supports the defiant doctors, saying that government policy cannot determine medical ethics that include "post-exposure prophylaxis for sexual assaults and mother-to-child HIV transmission." So too do many leading civic and religious figures. Opening a new HIV research unit at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto last month, Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, head of the Anglican Church in South Africa, called it "sinful and immoral" to deny drugs that could save the life of a child. Said Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, "We can't afford the luxury of academic debates about the causes...
...main hospital in northern Mitrovica, Marijan Ilincic, a 51-year-old bridge watcher and former judo instructor, denies this. He called his group a "civic organization" formed after the war when Yugoslav troops withdrew. "We decided we could either run to Serbia or stay and defend ourselves," he says. "We decided to stay. We know the Albanians. They are prone to terrorism. We have to protect ourselves." Down the corridor, in an office that boasts one of the biggest security details in the city, hospital director Milan Ivanovic, a lung specialist who is also one of the city's most...