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Conservative voices are met with hostility on the BGLTSA open e-mail list, according to both liberal and conservative members. The HRC, as evidenced by an internal conflict last year, has not found a position on gay marriage that satisfies to its entire membership. As a result, gay conservatives at Harvard, members of a super minority of “pink elephants,” seem to lack a home...
...China was the only person I spoke to who was a former child soldier. Of course, I read her autobiography, which is called Child Soldier: Fighting for My Life. Then I read a lot of other autobiographies of child soldiers and people who had been through conflicts, and read all of these Amnesty International Human Rights Watch-UN reports on children in conflict and child combatants. I read child psychology textbooks, to look at development, and how violence affects development, and how children perceive death, and punishment and reward. Additionally, I talked with [my own] family members and other Nigerians...
...occurred after rising tensions between townsfolk and Oxford University students—tensions attributed to students being governed by the University and not the town, even though the two inhabited the same space—came to a head in a bar brawl at a local tavern. This tiny conflict erupted into a full-scale riot which left nearly one hundred students dead.Admittedly, this took place in 1355—medieval times—though similar tensions persist. In modern times, the problems are somewhat less dramatic: traffic cones appear on the heads of historic statues; brainless students launch themselves...
...Hwang's rush to push ahead with his work, a conflict was perhaps inevitable. "The whole issue of using human eggs and reproductive cloning is so sensitive that you have to be squeaky clean ethically," says Dr. Richard Boyd, a stem-cell scientist at Australia's Monash University. Despite the scandal, Hwang, who says he'll continue his research, remains a hero at home?last week more than 600 Korean women signed up to donate their eggs. That reaction worries Ku In Hoe, a bioethicist at Catholic University in Seoul. "Korea's representative scientist just turned...
...which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession…” This means that any adoption of torture practices would indisputably conflict with both domestic and international legal obligations...