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...America selectively flouts the WTO rulings with which it happens to disagree, it will seriously undermine the free trade rules the intergovernmental institution has assiduously forged over the years. Moreover, disrespecting international institutions and rejecting policies that mutually benefit America and other countries is an especially foolish move at this time, given the resentment American unilateralism has recently engendered...
...helped him," Chaussoy told Time last week. "I eased his pain, physical and emotional." The local prosecutor says these injections killed Vincent, and doctors are forbidden from deliberately provoking death under the French code of medical ethics. But the code also requires doctors to ease patients' suffering and avoid "foolish obstinacy" in treatment. Chaussoy's supporters say the shots are a customary, humane response to a patient in pain. Chaussoy did not mention the injections in his public statements after Vincent's death. And he confirms that if he'd done nothing, Vincent would have likely emerged from his coma...
...offices, the cultures of the two hemispheres are inseparable. Furthermore, to suggest that the teachings of Mohandas K. Gandhi were not the primary inspiration for the political philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. would be to call King himself a liar. Confucius wrote of the perils of a foolish consistency more than 2,000 years before Emerson set foot on the Earth and wrote the same in “Self-Reliance,” which, like the writings of King, is taught in the government department’s introductory course on political theory. The freedom from compulsion...
...Sala-I-Martin says. “Jafar is my favorite, but Scar is pretty cool too.” Long ago, he decided that he would name his child after the villain in the Disney movie released the year in which he or she was born. As potentially foolish as this may seem (who wants a child named Shere Khan?), he and his wife were blessed with a baby girl in 1989 whom they proudly call “Ursula...
When students don’t trust students, it is no wonder that the administration is reluctant to do the same. The same Staff that has consistently advocated for student representation in the Curricular Review and on the Leaning Committee is foolish to treat discipline as a sacred cow too sensitive for student input. Discipline is too sensitive an issue to leave students...