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...Kudos to Charles Krauthammer for supporting the decisions of the Bijani twins and their doctors. But shame on him for getting stuck in the mire of religious values and cultural biases in regard to assisted suicide. If it wasn't a sin for the Bijani sisters to look death in the face and accept its reality, why is it a sin for others? Although I believe Krauthammer is right in arguing that trying to separate the Bijani twins was not assisting suicide, I take a strong stand against his implying that assisted suicide is immoral for anyone else who suffers...
More surprising is that, despite the army of Geppettos in Bush’s propaganda machine, Bush seems for the first time at a loss for new answers on Iraq. But even as he staggers through the mire of public suspicion, there is still hope for Bush where Blair is doomed. Sometimes the best answers are also the most simple, and Bush’s path to political redemption is facile enough to remember without a teleprompter: “I’m sorry...
...each song or movie or show for digital distribution with each individual artist and studio. They have made significant progress--Pressplay, for example, has upwards of 300,000 tracks available for download, with membership starting at $9.95 a month--but it's slow work. The for-pay services also mire users in a mesh of restrictions that limit what they can do with the music they download. That $9.95 plan at Pressplay buys you unlimited downloads, but you can't move the songs to your portable MP3 player or burn copies of them onto a CD, and you can listen...
...presently there is only a vague system in place for ensuring that news photographs that fall into what Cunningham repeatedly referred to as the “gray area” of illustration are identified as such. In this case, the Times’ initial inquiry ended in a mire of conflicting accounts. The inquiries, moreover, only began after tips were received from other photographers who happened to witness the action—an unreliable system at best...
...ground, which would only beg the question of what political capital the Bush administration may be willing to risk in order to realize its policy. A speech that was conceived, originally, as a vehicle to clarify the Bush administration's Mideast policy may be increasingly trapped in a mire of fudging. But the crisis demanded clarity of the administration in the first place is showing no signs of easing...