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...does something like that, it is because one is ethical." Chaussoy recently read Humbert's book, published the day before he died. "It confirmed the suffering that I knew about," he says. He has received thousands of letters, all supportive, he says. Public pressure to implement some kind of reform in Humbert's name is strong, but Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin opposes creating a new law. Bernard Kouchner, former French Minister of Health and founder of Doctors Without Borders, has even suggested erecting a statue in honor of Marie Humbert. Perhaps the plaque could quote Vincent: "Do not judge...
...Poor Returns JAPAN The ruling alliance led by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party held onto power with a reduced majority, winning 278 out of 480 seats in the Diet's Lower House in national elections. Koizumi claimed the poll as a vote of confidence in his reform program, despite a surge in support for the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, which gained 40 seats. Who's In Charge Here? SRI LANKA The Norwegian government said it would withdraw from its role as mediator in the peace process until the power struggle between President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime...
...candidacy of John Kerry, who has claimed "courage" as his theme and managed to take not a single inconvenient or unfudged position on any issue in this campaign. It also stands in contrast to Dean's furious backpedaling from earlier and wiser positions on old-age-entitlement reform and affirmative action. (Dean once said preferences should be granted on the basis of economic status rather than race...
...notion of Congress creating laws that tell them how to do their arcane jobs. Yet three of the most significant laws of the past 10 years--the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (1996), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley financial-modernization law (1999) and last year's Sarbanes-Oxley corporate-reform act--all have mandates to protect and secure data. Still needed, Geer argued, are laws that hold companies liable for holes in their security that make us vulnerable to attacks from elsewhere. Responsibility for passive negligence "might be better than, God help us, the U.S. Senate imposing an argument about...
...follow-up. The actual monitors often have business ties to the companies they are supposed to investigate objectively. The FLA also frequently relies on so-called “internal monitoring,” which is simply companies monitoring themselves—an ineffective and counter-intuitive prospect for reform...