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...Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs W. Carl Kester said there was little opposition to the program, but that the business school faculty made sure there would be demand and enough teachers at both schools before executing the plan...
...Table Stories range by Tord Boontje for Authentics If fairy tales are an inspiration for Boontje's Table Stories collection, the results are anything but Grimm. The in-demand Dutchman, whose studio is in Bourg-Argental, France, has created delightfully florid underglaze prints that will charm even your grouchiest guest. With such fantastical forest creatures hiding beneath your food, magic at mealtimes is guaranteed. www.authentics.de...
...Abortion on demand, even in the first trimester of a pregnancy, is still illegal in all but three small countries in predominantly Roman Catholic Latin America (Cuba, Guyana and Barbados). In fact, abortion prohibitions in some countries there have gotten stricter - even in Nicaragua, where the former Marxist revolutionary Daniel Ortega recently became President again, but where the staunchly pro-life Catholic Church last fall influenced passage of the hemisphere's most draconian ban on abortion...
...Elsewhere, the Uruguayan National Congress is now debating a Reproductive Health Law that would also allow abortion on demand in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (it now permits the procedure in cases of rape or in order to save the mother's life). A similar bill was narrowly defeated in 2004 - but it may face another tough round this year because, ironically, Uruguay's leftist President, Tabare Vasquez, a physician, opposes abortion rights...
...most troubling sign of gathering clouds was a statement from firebrand Shi'a leader Moqtada al-Sadr that was read at Kufa mosque south of Baghdad. Al-Sadr, still believed to be in Iran waiting out the troop surge, renewed his demand that the "occupier leave our land." He criticized "evil" President Bush for invading Iraq in the name of keeping America safe without thinking of the cost in Iraqi blood. Four years after the U.S. came to Iraq, he said, the country's leaders are "fighting over offices" while Iraq is "still without water, has no electricity, no fuel...