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...things are a little blurry. While deep in terms of number, there are some question marks in the pitching staff.The most important question is how quickly last year’s second and third starters, sophomore Dana Roberts and senior Amanda Watkins, will get healthy.Watkins, who has gotten some work in during the first two tournaments, is slowly making her way back after spending the fall walking around with her foot in a boot. A starter since her freshman year, Watkins has the opportunity to make a large impact in her last season with the Crimson...
Even more importantly, however, her case has also gotten many people across France reexamining their attitudes toward the assisted suicides of terminal patients that are legal in Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands. France's standing law was written in 2005, after a mother and doctor provoked the death of a young man who no longer wanted to live in his paralyzed, virtually shut-in condition. Marie Humbert - the mother of that man - has continued denouncing the law for only allowing the passive act of interrupting life-sustaining treatment. Some 300,000 people have signed Humbert's petition to depenalize active...
...invaded Tibet. The New York Times and other international media outlets covered the desperate radio broadcasts of a “shocked” Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual and political leader, in the wake of invasion. Yet Mao got away with it, much like Stalin had gotten away with his construction of puppet regimes from the Baltic to the Adriatic after World...
...only one watching: the video has gotten almost four million hits (another, with Britney, Beyoncé, and Pink singing “We Will Rock You” has gotten more than 12 million). What are we looking for? Why do we, in 2008, keep coming back to this pristine but painful image of an all-too-changed icon...
...progress Things are definitely getting better here. I'm not one to be overly optimistic about anything, but even during the time my unit has been in this area, we have seen things get better. We have seen people come back to jobs. Things have gotten much more secure. But I think everybody else realizes that it's so very tenuous. Things could fall apart so quickly...