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...radical social change. Though some have called for a new liberal euthanasia law, which would again raise the church's ire, the government has found that some of the changes it seeks surprisingly overlap with the church's interests - like a proposal made two weeks ago that would extend maternity leave for working mothers. But Anglo-Spanish writer Tom Burns Marañon, a liberal Catholic, anticipates an intellectual slugfest in Valencia. "What are Popes for if not to lay down the law over anything they don't like? Of course the government won't like it, but it does...
...Supreme Court made it clear that the Geneva conventions afford Gitmo detainees certain trial rights. Less certain is whether Geneva rights should now extend to cover interrogations at the camp. The White House has held that unlawful combatants are to be treated humanely but are not covered by Geneva, which prohibits "humiliating and degrading treatment." Some techniques, like shackling prisoners for 24 hours and leaving them in their own excrement, are known to have been used at Gitmo and would certainly fall under that definition. Regardless of what the prevailing interpretations of the Hamdan decision are, the government would...
...clients, investment banks worldwide are increasingly taking on more risk by putting their own money into deals. In a recent letter to shareholders, Henry Paulson, Goldman Sachs' outgoing CEO and nominee for U.S. Treasury Secretary, noted how Goldman and others now look to use "their own balance sheets to extend credit to clients, to assume market risk on their behalf and sometimes to co-invest alongside them." In some respects, industry pioneers like Macquarie and Goldman are borrowing from the tactics of hedge funds and venture-capital firms to reinvent what investment banking is all about. Risk has its rewards...
...breakfast and at dinner. I'm often working to 10 or 11 at night; and so is everyone." The admissions director, William Rees, talks of a "culture of mutual high expectations between masters and boys." Because it's a seven-day-a-week boarding school, the high expectations extend beyond the classroom. Richard Mason, a South African novelist who published his first book, The Drowning People, three years after leaving Eton in 1996, says that as a student he got to act in several plays "in a 400-seat theater. They were quite serious productions." Classmates composed music that...
...Emancipation of Mimi became the best-selling album of 2005. Now Mariah Carey hopes her current tour will extend that career high note...