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...that in her French home is in the hands of a Dijon judge, who is set to hand down his decision Monday. Sebire's lawyers argue that current laws pertaining to terminal patients can be interpreted to allow active euthanasia. The political consequences of that ruling will be as grave as Sebire's vital stake in it. Members of France's center-right government have rejected Sebire's appeal in virtual unison, arguing that existing legislation, laid down in 2005, allows families and doctors of terminal patients to withhold life-sustaining treatment, but in no way permits active measures...
...Zedong, for instance, would likely roll over in his grave to learn of the publication, in a recent biography, of this rambling and rather mushy scrap of marginalia from his days as an idealistic student: “Since I cannot forget the feeling I have toward the one I love, my will desires to save her and I will do everything possible to save her…I would rather die myself than let her die.” Sweet, but also embarrassing if you’re supposed to be the iron-fisted dictator of Communist China...
...engagement with these issues has often been too timid, failing to produce a unified moral voice. Our cautious response to these issues in the face of mounting evidence may be seen by the world as uncaring, reckless and ill-informed. We can do better and that threat is too grave to wait for perfect knowledge before addressing it." The declaration commends government action but makes no specific policy recommendations, such as a cap on greenhouse gas emissions. But, most importantly, given its target readership, it argues that stewardship of the planet is just as Biblical as the other causes that...
...sarcastic spoken-word, Cave recounts the mournful wanderings of post-tomb Lazarus, whose brief encounter with fame in modern America ends “back on the streets in New York City / In a soup queue / A dope fiend / A slave / Then prison / Then the madhouse / Then the grave.” It’s a fitting end for any character in a Bad Seeds song, but Cave spouts this particular sermon with the vigor of a revivalist preacher. “I can hear chants and incantations and some guy’s mentioning me in his prayers...
...mirrored by the audience’s confusion over which account to believe. After the intensity of the dialogue, Sister Aloysius’ exaggerated sense of decorum infuses a bit of comic relief into the script. Wright’s production succeeds as a worthy representation of a grave parable...