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...legalese, the reality is actually fairly simple. Waterboarding is torture, and torture is inherently immoral. The United States should never stoop to such a practice. Outside of the political arena, there doesn’t seem to be much confusion. Institutions such as the UN Convention against Torture, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and an open letter to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales signed by over 100 American law professors have had no trouble with correctly defining waterboarding as a revolting and illegal form of torture. Even Republican candidate John McCain, who was a prisoner...
...Rome wasn't built in a day, but that's all the time that Nicholas Negroponte has for the Eternal City right now. As he's done for the past three years, the founder and chairman of the non-profit One Laptop Per Child foundation has touched down in one world capital after another to pitch his innovative and audacious project to government leaders, curious techies, education advocates, NGOs and anyone else who will listen. But even as he was criss-crossing Rome in a hectic 14 hours earlier this week, Negroponte's attention was fixed on a factory near...
...success is to keep this artisanal production but to organize it so well that you can increase the capacity. [The Fendi factory in Rome] has almost no machines. It is all handmade but it can be increased with the same level of craftsmanship, which is good for employment. This is also what I say to politicians in France, where we have some factories doing other brands [including Louis Vuitton]. Many of them are against globalization, but what we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France...
Given their ability to change the nature of things, it's fitting that the Campanas' current project is designing sets for Création 2007, the Ballet National de Marseille's version of Ovid's Metamorphoses, premiering in Luxembourg in December. Ancient Rome meets contemporary Brazil? Look out for the Dance of the Vestal Refuse Collectors; it's sure to swing...
...very encouraging that the Pope has decided to come," says Mario Marazziti, a spokesman for the Catholic Community of Sant'Egidio, the Rome-based group behind both the Assisi and Naples events. "At the same time we know this is a different Pope than John Paul, who touched so many with the charisma of his person. This is a theologian-Pope, who governs with his word." But more and more, Benedict also seems to understand that gestures - and even just showing up - are sometimes the best way to be heard...