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...last decade, at least 4,000 citizens have been imprisoned on political charges. Under a law passed in 1998, any word or action interpreted as an offense against the President can be punished by up to five years in jail. Lukashenko's writ is enforced by the highest number of police per capita in Europe, and his government has cracked down hard on human-rights and democracy organizations that criticize him. The U.S. and Europe have repeatedly condemned Belarus as an outpost of tyranny. Even at the forgotten edge of the Continent, a land where one man ruthlessly controls...
...purchased during the holiday season, are raised in humane conditions. "No pet store will tell you that its puppies come from a puppy mill," says Ed Sayres, president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, "but these animals are commercially exploited to generate the highest amount of profit at the lowest possible cost...
...first and most important thing to say about Munich, Steven Spielberg's new film, is that it is a very good movie--good in a particularly Spielbergian way. By which one means that it has all the virtues we've come to expect when he is working at his highest levels. It's narratively clean, clear and perfectly punctuated by suspenseful and expertly staged action sequences. It's full of sympathetic (and in this case, anguished) characters, and it is, morally speaking, infinitely more complex than the action films it superficially resembles--pictures that simply pit terrorists against counterterrorists without...
...have a complicated problem to address. According to Karen M. Emmons, a faculty member at the DFCI and associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, black men are 2.5 times more likely to die of prostate cancer than white men in Boston, and black women have the highest death rate from cancer. “There are pervasive and persistent disparities by race, gender, and ethnicity,” she said. Inequalities extend into the realm of medical education and research as well. “Minority groups represent 33 percent of the U.S. population, but only...
...July, Lorentzen made it to the quarterfinals of the individual tournament before falling to the eventual champion, Egypt’s Raneem El Weleily. As a member of the four-person U.S. squad, Lorentzen did not drop a single match as the American team took fourth overall, its highest finish ever. It was an intense schedule, but one that was worth the effort.“It was definitely a very slow process getting better,” Lorentzen says. “I worked harder than I think I’ve ever worked. It was definitely...