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...characterized by the sort of top-down management style that might work in the boardroom but seems autocratic almost anywhere else. By absorbing other minority parties, his Thai Rak Thai party now has a two-thirds majority in the assembly, which could allow constitutional changes after a five-year moratorium on amendments expires in October. Thaksin has claimed he had nothing to do with the press crackdowns, but few believe his underlings would be operating without his approval. "He wants total control," says Senator Somkiat Onwimon...
...certain latitude to choose how we'd like to abuse our own bodies. Some people self-medicate with food, others with an occasional drink. When networks start pulling ads for legal products simply because they are bad for you, then we can start talking about a moratorium on beer, wine and liquor commercials...
...Despite aggressive legislation from Minority Leader Trent Lott, the Senate has declined to schedule a vote on a six-month moratorium on cloning into this year's docket (which was enthusiastically endorsed in the House pre-9/11). Apparently they prefer to wait until 2002 - when presumably everyone will have more time to debate the intellectually demanding subject matter. On the stem cell front, efforts of anti-abortion activists were also stymied by the terror attacks, when their congressional allies were forced to sideline challenges to President Bush's announcement that he will allow limited stem cell research...
Consensus seems unlikely in the near future. For the best part of a year, a European Parliament committee has been holding hearings to establish a framework for cloning research. Last week, a resolution went before the Parliament that called for a moratorium on therapeutic cloning. But in the end - after 400 amendments, some of which contradicted each other - not even the resolution's originator could support...
With so much at stake, co-editor Mary C. Warner ’85 and I attended a Wellesley student council meeting to discuss the article. Afterwards, the council decided to suspend distribution of the What? on campus for three weeks. The more serious moratorium, however, was avoided...