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...virus every day. But the government of Mandela's successor, Thabo Mbeki, has hampered efforts to fight the disease by questioning the link between HIV and AIDS and the efficacy of AIDS drugs. Mandela's public acknowledgment last week that his son Makgatho, 54, an apprentice lawyer, had succumbed to the disease was "a political statement designed to . . . force the President out of his denial," says Debbie Mathew, executive director of the aids Foundation of South Africa. Said Mandela: I have been saying. . . . that we should speak openly about HIV/AIDS . . . It is the only way in which it will become...
...witness for the prosecution; in Houston. In testifying that Yates knew right from wrong, psychiatrist Park Dietz referred to a Law & Order episode concerning a depressed woman who drowns her kids, which prosecutors suggested influenced Yates' actions. The court subsequently learned that no such episode exists. Although Yates' lawyer said he would not seek her immediate release from prison, her mother is pushing for hospitalization instead of a new trial...
...State Department and attorneys representing the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the military services opposed abandoning the strict reliance on Geneva, chiefly because it might endanger U.S. troops who could be captured and denied the Conventions' protection. In January 2003, owing to concerns from the Navy's top lawyer, Rumsfeld abruptly rescinded his December order, pending a study, and ordered that the tougher measures could only be applied with his approval. Three months later, the study group recommended the use of some of the new interrogation techniques at Guant??namo. Dropped from the list were hooding, nudity...
...sixty year old New England lawyer, and recently departed Institute of Politics fellow, spent much of his career developing environmentally sustainable, alterative energy sources—first at a pioneering hydrogen and biomass company, and later at his own electricity conservation firm. For twenty years, King hosted the public television program “MaineWatch” and brought together local Democrats and Republicans, entrepreneurs, intellectuals, religious leaders and politicians to soberly reflect on public problems and agree on practical “common-sense solutions...
...does not hide the sparkle and sadness of his eyes, the irony the invalid finds in his condition. Ramn's body may be essentially dead, but his spirit--angry, calculating, humorous, demanding--is wonderfully alive. The strikingly beautiful Beln Rueda is Bardem's equal as the lawyer who takes Ramn's case and falls in love with...