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...Inuit may feel most aggrieved by another aspect of the ban: It will remain legal for Europe's fishermen to cull seals for fish stock management. (And they can continue to sell the resulting seal products within the E.U.). Adult seals get through huge amounts of fish on a daily basis, and buried within the Parliament ban is a recognition that seals often have to be hunted to ensure the sustainability of fisheries in some areas. Indeed, the population of seals on Canada's east coast is now 6 million, three times what it was in the 1970s, making them...
...also important, he says, to create a venue for people of different beliefs to figure out how religion fits into the rest of their lives. "How do we integrate having religious ethics in our modern society? How does faith fit into a secular legal system?" says Brown. "Muslims aren't the only ones with these problems." (Read more about the American phenomenon of church-shopping...
Barysch failed to state the main reason why Europe and Turkey will probably never get along. There are too few common elements linking them. Turkey can't be seriously considered European in terms of history, geography, culture, religion or politics. European countries share common historic, religious, political and legal values, such as the rule of law, freedom of speech and the outright ban on armed forces participating in any political activity. Unfortunately, these are of very little importance to Turkey. This country, whose strategic value has been vastly overestimated, continues to bully, demanding that the E.U. adapts to its unacceptably...
...Reefer Madness! Kudos to Joe Klein for his piece on legalizing marijuana [April 13]. The tax revenues a legal industry could generate - not just from pot but from hemp products as well - could solve major economic issues. I may have spent much of my high school years in a doobie-induced haze (mind you, I live a happily successful life now), but I do vaguely recall something from history class about the repeal of Prohibition and the subsequent taxation of liquor playing a significant role in our nation's recovery from the Great Depression. Perhaps if our leaders were willing...
...self-destructive act, oddly enough, is a sort of legal tradition in Ireland. As early as the 8th century, villagers aired their grievances and settled disputes by fasting on the doorsteps of their wrongdoers until they were publicly shamed into doing the right thing. The IRA resurrected the practice in 1917, with Thomas Ashe, leader of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, who died in the city's cruelly named Mountjoy Prison during a botched force-feeding. "It is not those who can inflict the most, but those who can suffer the most who will conquer," he declared shortly before...