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...adds that those in favor of regulation retain the upper-hand because the path of least resistance for academic leadership is to try to curb dissent—which he says explains the changes at Harvard’s affiliates...
...Krumholz says the debate is not about whether industry should be involved in medicine at all, but rather what interactions are ethical, a question the profession must answer if it is to retain patients’ confidence...
...Later, though, Cedras offered a compromise under which they would after all quit and be replaced by people named by Aristide. That was not acceptable to the U.S., which feared Cedras was concocting a formula under which Aristide would return only as a figurehead and the military leaders would retain the real power. But the conciliatory noises indicated the Haitian leaders were beginning to weaken under pressure and might bend further. In the meantime, events in Haiti continued to get uglier. Thugs called attaches -- officially auxiliary police but actually descendants of the Tontons Macoutes who enforced two generations of Duvalier...
...often tried to retain the rights of indigenous people, you see it in Canadian bear hunting laws, you see it with bald eagle feathers here in the States, you see it with walrus and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. But people try to take advantage of that by hiring local people to poach for them. There's the case that I cover in Animal Investigators about the guy who was working with government officials in Brazil, who would illegally hire native Indians to poach the animals. They'd do grocery lists, it would be like, "I need 44 jaguar teeth...
...even after over twenty years struggling for their rights, the Tatars retain a faith in a better, peaceful future. "Dogs bark, but the caravan goes on," says Osmanov, quoting an Arab proverb. "We'll get there, despite these problems. God sees everything and in the end he puts things in their rightful place...