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...American lives. Nonetheless, controversy has arisen: given the potential value of terrorists’ information, how far can the government go to obtain it? In times of war, the standard since 1949 has been the Geneva Conventions, specifically Common Article Three, which forbids “outrages upon personal dignity?? and “humiliating and degrading treatment.” The Bush administration has been unequivocal in stating that the United States is at war, yet for the last five years Bush has acted as if the Conventions do not apply. The Supreme Court found this summer...
...considered it beneath my dignity??and look at me now,” Lithgow says...
Considered in this light, we may see the Pope as a passionate defender of human dignity??God given dignity, not “self-created” dignity??against anyone who would usurp it. In this view, God gives life; the abortion and war we create take it away. God gives us love among each other and within the family; we respond with divorce, birth control, and new conceptions of that family relationship. God gives us freedom; Soviet communism and the moral laissez-faire attitudes of modern democracy steal that freedom away...
...which personal convenience is paramount and pain is something dealt with as quickly as possible, the sheer grace with which he accepted his demise is breathtaking. John Paul II suffered greatly in his time on this earth, yet he did not seek to die with “dignity?? by having a needle stuck in his arm—as many “ethicists” now compel us to—but by accepting God’s will...
Peljto, the graceful Bosnian, led Harvard to new heights—in team success, class and dignity??in her four years as a member of the All-Ivy First-Team...