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That access raises serious concern among watchdog groups. The Wiesenthal Center aims not to make hate speech illegal but to marginalize it. It asks institutions to establish moral criteria for what they present to the public, and in doing so, hopes to push groups to the sidelines which espouse bigotry and violence. But the Internet, and the World Wide Web in particular, has proven to be a challenging new front in that ongoing struggle...
...identified as Henan province's sole orphanage. Neilson says that if this is the same institution she works with--who knows? the report claims the location is "unclear"--the mud-walled building has been razed and a new facility is being built. When it is completed, WACAP will help establish a rehabilitation unit for disabled kids. That pioneering effort has nothing to do with adoption, which admittedly benefits only the few. It is a self-sustaining project that speaks to China's determination to improve the lives of its least wanted citizens...
...slanting the opinions they give based upon monetary considerations that in many cases they wouldn't have allowed to influence them before." Vincent Riccardi, a neurologist and expert on "Elephant Man" disease, says the issue of trust in California is already moot. He has gone so far as to establish a company, American Medical Consumers, that plans one day to dispatch "personal medical advocates" to negotiate for care on behalf of patients. People must be willing to confront their doctors, he says. "Since the trust is already gone, why not? You've got nothing to lose...
...Hasan offered to acquire Health Net, but Greaves wasn't interested. He was about to convert Health Net into a for-profit company, a process that under California law required Health Net to establish an independent, nonprofit foundation and fund it with an amount equal to the company's fair market value--a way of paying back the state for all the taxes the company had avoided as a nonprofit. Conversion would pave the way for going public. In a tactical maneuver, Dr. Hasan filed a lawsuit to block the conversion, charging that Greaves had undervalued the company...
This year an "important goal" of the U.S. is to help nations in not only the peace process itself, but the aftermath as well, he said. The U.S. will "help the War Crime Tribunals establish accountability in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda for two of the greatest tragedies of this decade," he said...