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...judge to halt the process and then condemned those involved, including the 9-year-old's distraught mother. Even Catholic Brazilians were shocked at the harshness of the archbishop's actions. "In this case, most people support the doctors and the family. Everything they did was legal and correct," says Beatriz Galli, the policy associate for Ipas Brasil, an NGO that fights to give women more say over their health and reproductive rights. "But the Church takes these positions that are so rigid that it ends up weakened. It is very intolerant, and that intolerance is going to scare...
...music’s value is still unsolved by this scheme.Of course, a Mastercard commercial would tell us that music is “Priceless,” and as far as emotional value is concerned, this cliché is right on the money. Perhaps monetarily, though, the correct phrasing consumers are looking for is “without price” or “FREE!” When Beethoven debuted his Ninth Symphony 185 years ago, there were several things of which we can be certain, namely that there was no bootleg made of the performance, there...
...weeks from today, the euphoric event begins again. I will fill out my bracket hoping to make the correct pick for all 63 games, a hope likely to die in one of the very first games. I’ve had some moderate success in the past, getting two champions right (UConn 2004, Florida 2007) and I won a bag of candy I don’t like in my Expos class pool freshman year on the strength of six Elite Eights, two Final Fours, and UCLA in the title game. Oh yeah, I also picked Maryland...
...precedents,” Iyer said. “The only way to effectively know about grants would be through the experience of assessing grants on a week-to-week basis.”The Dowling Report also faces the same problems that it has been trying to correct: while the report has some firm recommendations, it has no legislative power and therefore depends on the efforts of people not involved in the committee’s affairs to implement it.To move forward, proposals in the report will have to be taken on by separate bodies: the UC, the administration...
...study's estimates are correct, more than twelve women die in fires every hour in India. But as the authors point out, fairly simple measures could be taken to prevent the accidental deaths of so many women - not to mention the thousands of children, elderly and unprotected workers who die each year in fires as well. The solution to dowry deaths and bride burnings, however, is not so simple. "Marriage patterns (especially hypergamy), economic dependence of women, and cultural norms...make state agencies, such as the police, especially hesitant to intervene effectively in cases of domestic violence," the study notes...