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...dozen or so of their classmates wear head scarves and have not been expelled. And in Germany, a teacher sues for the right to keep her head veiled in the classroom, and after a five-year battle she wins - except the court also rules that states are free to establish head-scarf bans of their own. Confused? You're not alone. In these three cases - all making news in the past few weeks - religious freedom and cultural identity clash with secular ideals. In all three, the decision-makers said they were upholding their countries' laws on the separation of church...
...right to wear head scarves in school. "I felt discriminated against for years," says the Afghanistan-born Ludin, who now works in a private Islamic school in Berlin, "and this decision comes as a great relief." But the Court also decreed that Germany's 16 states were "free to establish the legal basis" for a head-scarf ban. In other words, state legislatures could ban head scarves from public-school classrooms if they felt their presence interfered with the obligation to provide a religiously neutral education. More liberal states are likely to allow teachers to cover their heads, but conservative...
...just have to establish myself as a player,” he continued, “and see where I fit in the grand scheme of things...
...life decisions are never treated lightly. Hospital ethics committees confer with family members to establish proof of a patient's wishes. "Overwhelmingly, these cases are decided by consensus," says Dr. Joseph J. Fins, chief of the division of medical ethics at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center. "What's so tragic here [in Schiavo's case] is that you have a family divided against itself...
...more responsive to the world than vegetative patients and, significantly, retain the potential to become fully conscious. The famous 1996 case of the "coma cop" involved a police officer who was almost certainly minimally conscious and briefly recovered consciousness after seven years. Schiavo's parents tried but failed to establish that this was their daughter's condition...