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...REVISED. CHINA'S GENERAL PHYSICAL EXAMINATION STANDARDS, to allow HIV-positive citizens to qualify for government jobs; in a draft posted on Ministry of Personnel and Ministry of Health websites last week; in Beijing. Earlier versions barred those with HIV or AIDS from public service, and were denounced as unconstitutional by Chinese AIDS activists and human-rights attorneys. The new guidelines still don't cover those with full-blown AIDS, but Shanghai-based lawyer-activist Zhou Dan says the reform will help "ensure that the government isn't in the position of legalizing discrimination...
...example, Gonzales put his name on the January 2002 draft of a legal memo intended for Bush that argued that al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters captured in Afghanistan were not prisoners of war but enemy combatants who had no legal rights under the Geneva Convention, parts of which the memo derided as "quaint." Gonzales contended that "the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians ... renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on the questioning of enemy prisoners...
...yeah, the Harvard season. In the midst of all the murmurs about what will happen come draft day, Fitzpatrick hasn’t forgotten the team he’s playing with every Saturday. Taking the advice of former Crimson players Carl Morris ’03 and Jamil Soriano ’03—both of whom have toiled on practice squads and in the NFL Europe—Fitzpatrick has endeavored to keep the future distinct from the present. The agents get deferred to his father, while the subject of the NFL has been off-limits between...
It’s hard to predict what exactly Fitzpatrick’s prospects in the draft will be. A lot will depend on what senior bowl invites he receives. On top of that, he has to contend with an Ivy bias that has stung would-be draftees in previous years...
...think we’ve seen that in the past, at least since I’ve been here we’ve had a couple pro prospects that just for some reason or another—they’ve done great in the Ivy League, and come draft day, they just don’t get the respect that maybe some of them deserve...