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Next, officers are invited to talk about the things they have done that violated the dignity of others. Role-playing exercises require them to step into a suspect's shoes. Over the course of three days, the cops, most of whom are shift commanders, are forced to confront themselves and their past. In one session, a police officer from El Salvador admitted that his superiors told him a prisoner he was escorting should be killed. "I got a hero's medal for murder," he told the stunned class...
...gestures on the parts of Merck and Bristol-Meyers are certainly steps in the right direction, but there must be further action to confront this deadly crisis. We urge governments in developed countries to help finance prevention, education and treatment efforts for the more than 25 million Africans suffering from AIDS, and we call on the drug companies to continue lowering their prices to facilitate this end. The solution must also include significantly greater funding for public research groups such as the National Institute of Health, which would have different incentives than private corporations and which would not oppose...
...people like no one else can. But you have to have a setback in order to have a comeback." T's setback came in 1995, when he was diagnosed with, no kidding, T-cell lymphoma. After initially keeping the disease a secret, the man baptized Lawrence Tureaud decided to confront cancer head on. "I said to myself, 'T, you used to kick ass in the 'hood. You joined the Army so you could kick butt. And you scared of this?' I decided to bring cancer out of the closet. Now I wear my cancer like I wear my blackness...
...transaction is emblematic of industry on the verge of an environmental transition. Congress may have snubbed the Kyoto accord, and global bureaucrats may be stumbling over the details of a carbon-emissions trading system. But corporations, against the run of play, are beginning to confront the climate conundrum the best way they know how--as a business opportunity. John Browne, CEO of BP Amoco, and Mark Moody-Stuart, chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell Group, have both responded to the global-warming threat and set up internal systems that exceed goals put forth in Kyoto. Shell and BP have vowed...
Next, officers are invited to talk about the things they have done that violated the dignity of others. Role-playing exercises require them to step into a suspect's shoes. Over the course of three days, the cops, most of whom are shift commanders, are forced to confront themselves and their past. In one session, a police officer from El Salvador admitted that his superiors told him a prisoner he was escorting should be killed. "I got a hero's medal for murder," he told the stunned class...