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...whom their actions effect. Because potential injustices can be linked to almost any purchase, “ethical consumerism” has been brought to the forefront of society as an ideal. Broadly defined, the desire to be an ethical consumer—be it as a stockholder, business partner, or traditional consumer—is at the heart of the divestment debate. This issue raises two questions: first, whether we have an obligation to hold ourselves to the standards of ethical consumerism, and second, whether ethical consumerism is our highest ethical obligation...
...confirmed that the Vice President was first interviewed by his chief deputy at 8 a.m. Sunday morning-14 hours after the incident-at the ranch 21 miles south of Sarita, the county seat. Since Monday, the deputy, Gilberto San Miguel Jr., has also gotten statements from Cheney?s hunting partner Pamela Willeford, the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Lichtenstein, ranch owner Katharine Armstrong and her sister Sarita Armstrong Hixon, as well as two outriders helping with the hunt-Jerry and Oscar Medellin. Bo Hubert, the hunt guide, is to give his version of events to deputies on Friday. None...
...committee post meant an almost 90% pay cut, but Shockey's lobbying firm helped cushion the blow. Copeland, Lowery, Jacquez-where Lewis?s close friend Bill Lowery, a former California congressman, is a partner-gave Shockey a $600,000 going-away buyout, according to Shockey?s financial disclosure form. He was to receive his buyout in three $200,000 payments scheduled for February, May and August 2005-even as he was in his committee post. The firm would also keep Shockey in the family by hiring his wife, Alexandra-another former Lewis aide-as a consulting lobbyist...
...Appropriations issued a press release heralding the return of former aides, including Shockey. The release-which disappeared from the committee web site after TIME made inquiries in recent weeks, a move that spokesman Scofield attributed to the tech department-says that "Shockey spent the last six years as a partner in the Washington, D.C.-based firm, Copeland, Lowery, Jacquez, Denton & Shockey." It said Shockey would "assist... with the Committee?s day-today [sic] operations including maintaining a close working relationship between the Committee, the elected leadership, the Budget Committee, and various authorizing committees...
...sprint relay - a new Olympic event - one skier does a 1.1-kilometre loop and then tags her partner, who skis the same loop. Each skier completes three legs. After finishing second in the semifinal to advance, Renner started the first leg of the final. The Canadian tandem led after each of the first two exchanges and Renner was in the midst of an uphill section on her second loop when the pole broke. "I don't even know what happened, I just know that all of a sudden I was kind of flapping with one arm," she said, laughing...