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Relatives often need time to sift through intense feelings and to say a long goodbye. Last September the family of Jill Rudolph, 41, of Toledo, Ohio, voted 5 to 3 to remove her feeding tube. She had been in a persistent vegetative state since May, when she suffered multiple strokes. Her mother Joyce Moran voted against removal. Years ago, Moran's brother-in-law had needed six months to emerge from a coma; what if Rudolph needed that time too? The family compromised, agreeing not to take immediate action. But by November, Moran had gone through an intense period...
...from state banks. But China's banking system is awash in bad loans, so now Beijing prefers companies to raise capital by going public. "Stock markets should be a vigorous entrepreneurial way to promote capitalism, but China uses them to manage the slow decline of state companies," says Matthew Rudolph, a fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs in Hanover, New Hampshire, who is writing a book on China's markets. Investors "are just helping the government manage domestic politics," he adds...
...show has had its detractors. Two British Parliament members condemned the anatomical exhibit as "unacceptable in a civilized society," and the Lutheran Church in Germany deemed it immoral. Several California Science Center board members were initially "very uncomfortable" with the exhibit, admits president Jeffrey Rudolph. One controversial display--a partially dissected pregnant woman, whose heart, intestines and 8-month-old fetus are clearly visible--was placed behind a wall with notices posted nearby, to alert anyone who might be offended. Plenty apparently aren't: half a million people have seen the show in L.A., double the attendance of the museum...
...Whatever,” explained that people across the country feel they can no longer say “Merry Christmas”; they can’t light a community Christmas tree; and they don’t allow their children to sing renditions of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” for fear of alienating classmates by the song’s mention of “Christmas Eve.” Admittedly, I was mildly outraged—a classic case of unreasonable political correctness. The article’s anecdotes were pretty ridiculous...
...issue of Kerik's reputation for occasional lapses of judgment in personal matters. Or that the smell of some conflict-of-interest issues still clung to him. "Everything seemed pretty normal, at least by Washington or New York standards," his mentor and boss, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, told TIME. "It is never pleasant. You deal with it." But they hadn't counted on the nanny. Kerik's disclosure, a week after President George W. Bush had announced his selection, that a nanny he had once employed may have been an illegal immigrant, and that...