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...can’t decide whether we’re really disgusted enough not to watch. “The producers of Temptation Island should be ashamed of themselves for trying to force the destruction of four relationships for the entertainment purposes of those low-lifes who consent to watch this trash,” commented Brent Bozell, founder of the Parents Television Council. Bozell’s view might reflect most of the country’s view, but for all his whining, it may be that half the country condemns the show’s immorality while three...
...nation's consumers - over the best way to keep private medical records private in an increasingly public-access world. When the rules, which were initially mandated by Congress, take effect in two years, every patient will be able to decide who sees his or her history; without specific written consent from the patient, the records will be out of reach...
...lectures is the professor's. By making the lectures available on the web, a professor losses the control over his or her image. On the Internet there is a concern of intellectual piracy. There may be someone out there who is interested in reproducing Wolcowitz's lectures without consent. To remedy this I would suggest additional password protection to the broadcasts, as well as the original password for the course website--this way, professor Wolcowiz can rest easy...
...bring order out of chaos. When it turns out that the law is poorly suited to its purposes or otherwise deficient, then it can be changed. But it must be changed in a particular way: by the people themselves, through representatives accountable to them alone. This is what "consent of the governed" means. As a practical matter, the consent of the governed is expressed by legislators who are voted into office for the purpose of writing new laws and changing old ones. If the legislators change or write those laws in ways we disagree with, then...
...obvious reasons: Arafat wants peacekeepers deployed around Palestinian populations to make it more difficult for Israel to annex land if a Palestinian state is unilaterally declared. Of course the best-case scenario for the optimists on both sides is that such a state's boundaries are defined by mutual consent in negotiations. But in the Middle East these days, optimism may be in short supply...