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...Senegalese director Alain Gomis, about a child's attempts to understand the world ("When I shut my eyes, are people still there?"). The festival will open with Anita Roddick: Mrs. Body Shop, a documentary by German filmmaker Thomas Weidenbach that focuses on Roddick's work in Ghana to establish a women's shea butter co-operative...
...National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 bans donors from receiving any “valuable consideration” in exchange for their organ. UNOS has argued that organ exchanges are not prohibited under the act. Roth said that an amendment to the 1984 act might be needed to establish a nationwide exchange...
Should a man be forced to be a father if he doesn't want to be? Yet another front in the abortion wars reopens now that the National Center for Men has undertaken a crusade to establish a "Roe v. Wade for Men." "Up until now, reproductive choice has been seen as a woman's issue: you're either pro-life or pro-choice," says center Director Mel Feit. "We're adding another element. If we expect men to be responsible, isn't it right to give them some choices...
...Smith trial, the defense will point to statements made by Army Col. Thomas Pappas, the senior military intelligence officer at Abu Ghraib, who has said he had approval from Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, a former commandant of Guantanamo who helped establish interrogation rules at Abu Ghraib. According to Pappas, Miller approved the use of dogs to extract information from detainees. In a statement given under oath on Jan. 25 after he was granted immunity from prosecution, Col. Pappas said he personally approved the use of dogs for a handful of prisoners. That approval, he said, came just days before...
...privacy in the name of fighting terror that gives us pause. In the fall, the Bush administration came under fire when it was found to have authorized secret warrant-free wiretapping of Americans. In 2004, a proposal made its way through the Department of Education policy chain to establish a government database to keep track of everything from academic records to sports teams. Supposedly designed to better track students’ progress and help improve educational developments, the plan included no way for students to opt out of being tracked. With the renewal of the Patriot Act, citizens must...