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...past: the battle for energy supplies among countries heavily dependent on imported oil and gas, which include the U.S. and the E.U., plus the rocketing economies of China and India. That necessity is a powerful weapon in this new battle. Shortly before Christmas, Russian President Vladimir Putin forced Royal Dutch Shell to cede control of Sakhalin II, the world's biggest oil and gas project, to the state-owned giant Gazprom, opening the North Pacific island's vast resources to Asian markets. The $7.45 billion price was small to Gazprom, whose value has soared from $9 billion...
Dench: When I first came to the RSC [Royal Shakespeare Company] in the early '60s, there was a boy in the paint shop painting sets who was called Roger Reese. And he ended up playing Hamlet. That kind of cherishing--we don't have that anymore. And it's never the fact that good actors are in work and bad actors are not in work. We are all aware that right here, right behind your shoulder, is somebody who will do your part and probably a great deal better than you. It's not just one--there...
Those deploring the Ashley Treatment as a medical fix for more than one family are watching the direction that Britain is taking. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecology has proposed that doctors openly consider allowing euthanasia of the sickest infants, which is legal in the Netherlands. "A very disabled child can mean a disabled family," the college wrote to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and urged that it "think more radically about nonresuscitation, withdrawal of treatment decisions ... and active euthanasia, as they are ways of widening the management options available to the sickest of newborns...
...Those troubled by the Ashley treatment as a medical fix for a larger social problem are watching the direction that Britain is taking. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecology has proposed that doctors be allowed to kill the sickest infants - which is already legal in the Netherlands. "A very disabled child can mean a disabled family," the college wrote to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and urged that they "think more radically about non-resuscitation, withdrawal of treatment decisions... and active euthanasia, as they are ways of widening the management options available to the sickest of newborns." At least...
...either candidate able to break the mold? I have some fears. Every time Royal speaks, someone behind her "corrects" what she means. Every time Sarkozy speaks, there are voices that say: "Yes, but you need to be careful." We are in a situation where the moment of revolution, if it exists, only exists in their heads...