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...bioethicist, I have a question about the justification of infanticide by Britain's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecology on the grounds that "a very disabled child can mean a disabled family." Why apply this consideration only to disabled infants? Cheating husbands, alcoholic wives and nagging mothers-in-law are just a few of the many sorts of people who can mean a very disabled family. Why not kill them too? Felicia Nimue Ackerman Professor of Philosophy Brown University Providence, Rhode Island...
...father shot the film that was to become a milestone of Jamaican culture and one of cinema's most unlikely survival stories. Thirty-five years on, Justine Henzell, in London this week for the opening night of a musical version of The Harder They Come at the Theatre Royal, remembers what the fuss was all about. "Jamaicans had never seen themselves on the big screen before," she says. "In those days we hardly ever saw ourselves on TV or commercials, let alone in a feature film...
...Over the years, Henzell had received various offers to stage The Harder They Come. "But he turned them all down," says Justine, "because they meant having to relinquish creative control - something Perry found very hard to do." But when Kerry Michael and Dawn Reid, directors of Stratford's Theatre Royal, on a trip to Jamaica four or five years ago, knocked on his door, they were only too pleased to have his creative input. So the musical version of The Harder They Come, as adapted by Perry Henzell and directed by Kerry Michael and Dawn Reid, opened last March...
...foreign companies that make sizable investments in Iran's giant oil and gas sector, like the 1995 Iran-Libya Sanctions Act, remain in force. The measure calls for U.S. sanctions on foreign companies that invest more than $20 million a year in Iran's energy sector, and last week Royal Dutch Shell admitted that could put in jeopardy its projected $10 billion investment in an Iranian gas field in cooperation with Spain's Repsol. Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer said, "I would like to emphasize that we have here quite a dilemma. This is Iran. They...
...joking, “I must warn you that I am in fact a video recording. I have only made a ‘virtual’ flight across the Atlantic and am ‘virtually’ half-dead and only ‘virtually’ royal.” The director of the Medical School center that presented the award, Eric S. Chivian ’64, later called the environmentalists’ criticisms of Charles “a rather low blow that really missed the point of the entire award...