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...enormous ethical issues and medical precedents involved, Monday's decision is bound to rekindle the controversy and debate that has raged across France over the case in recent weeks. Earlier this month Sebire wrote a personal appeal to President Nicolas Sarkozy that he support her request for euthanasia. Her plea was motivated by a campaign speech Sarkozy made last year ahead of his election, in which he admitted "when I hear debates on euthanasia, I tell myself that while I respect the principles, the convictions, at the bottom of my heart I still say there are limits to the suffering...
...home rally in Karachi, in which some 150 died, are inserted almost randomly into otherwise fluid prose that was written long before. The ubiquitous references to terrorism, however, underscore an important point. As a Muslim, and a victim, Bhutto is uniquely poised to present to her audience an impassioned plea for understanding. The war we should all be worrying about is not between Islam and the West, she says, but between moderates and extremists...
...years of silence, Polanski's defense attorney Douglas Dalton and the district attorney Roger Gunson detail the strange manner in which the case proceeded. Two court-appointed psychiatrists examined Polanski and determined that he was not a mentally deranged sex offender. Both attorneys and the victim argued for a plea bargain, but Rittenband, concerned with appearing soft on crime, sent Polanski to Chino State Penitentiary to undergo another 90-day evaluation period. On several occasions, Rittenband persuaded the attorneys to put on a show for the media, Dalton and Gunson say, arguing their sides even though the judge had already...
...uncharacteristically blunt terms, Sen. John F. Kerry delivered an impassioned plea for action on climate change at the Law School Wednesday, rebuking the nation’s “screwed up” priorities and criticizing both the U.S. government and Harvard for not taking stronger action to reduce carbon emissions. “The level of irresponsibility with respect to environmental issues is beyond comprehension,” Kerry said, noting that the U.S. has ignored international efforts to cap emissions and is trailing most of the developed world in using renewable fuels for electricity generation...
That trial resulted in a hung jury last month. Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr. ’85 had promised to pursue a third trial before the plea bargain was struck...