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...activists aren't the only ones concerned about China's organ trade. A day before Hu's interrupted White House speech, the British Transplantation Society, a group of 800 surgeons, issued a statement criticizing the use of death-row prisoners' organs in transplants - because it cannot verify China's claim that it only procures organs from prisoners who have given consent. "I don't believe anybody in a prison would be sitting around having voluntary consent discussions," says bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania. For its part, China's Ministry of Health maintains that Chinese hospitals perform "very...
...basketball, ice hockey, and lacrosse have occupied a more visible place on college campuses than other athletics. A school is more likely to receive wide acclaim for being national basketball champions than it would if its dance team were awarded the same honor. This tradition continues today. If we claim to want real equality between athletics, we must realize that the differences do not lie in the numbers; they lie in the way that members of the college community perceive different sports...
...Finance Committee. Representatives choose where to serve according to how highly they placed (first, second, or third) in their House or Yard election. Unsurprisingly, an overwhelming majority chooses the first committee; being on the Student Affairs Committee allows representatives to have first-hand contact with the administration and claim credit for advocacy successes. What follows is an overflow of uninspired representatives on the other two committees who do not get what they wanted; they are stuck controlling budgets and planning social soirées. This is the system of indirect election—leaders are assigned to their posts...
...also that ?nobody has the right to compromise.? That statement appeared to be directed at those who may be in a position to compromise over the president's head; the enrichment announcement, after all, actually gives Tehran more room for a face-saving compromise, since it can now claim to have kept its promise to its own people that Iran would not be stopped from mastering nuclear technology. But in so doing, Ahmadinejad was inadvertently reminding the world that although he's the elected president, he does not actually run the country...
...Mass demonstrations are taking place in almost every major city. So far more than ten people have been killed by the police, although the protesters claim the security forces have carted off many more bodies. And as much as the parties and the Maoists try to claim ownership of the protests, they are bigger than any one organization. Professors, civil servants, lawyers, even a gay rights group, have declared their allegiance to "the movement." But the movement itself is largely made up of teenage or twenty-something kids in Nirvana and Metallica T-shirts. "You cannot say this...