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...must one even agree with Florida’s (and every other state’s) law that leaves it up to the spouse to make the life-or-death decision for a permanently incapacitated partner who has not left a living will specifying a course of action. The salient point is that states have a right to enact such statutes, and it is for the state to assume responsibility for their decisions and deal with the consequences. Congress and President Bush overstepped their bounds early Monday morning when they granted Schiavo’s parents—who fervently...
Douthat’s dissections of class dynamics in his first-year Straus entryway, ethnic self-segregation in the College, and the Hasty Pudding embezzlement scandal are entertaining and provocative, raising salient questions about the role of race and status at an ostensibly diverse university...
...don’t really think about them within the context of the ‘Pear Tree,’” Muir adds. In fact, the most salient characteristic of the exhibit may be the complex dialogue established among the various themes engaged...
...Chidambaram's budget is one of the more salient proofs that the new government has remembered its origins. The budget, which increases spending on a range of antipoverty measures, is easily the most ambitious effort to channel India's robust economic growth into solving its most enduring problem. "Given the resilience of the Indian economy," the Finance Minister said in his speech to India's Parliament, "it is possible to ... launch a direct assault on poverty and unemployment." He then earmarked $5.7 billion for a series of programs aimed at bolstering education, infrastructure, housing, nutrition and health care, especially...
...This salient fact was observed by Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which went into force in 2002 and forbade the execution of juveniles, has been signed by every nation in the world except the U.S. and Somalia. Somalia is in a state of anarchy. The U.N. is not normally a place for bandwagoning; given the vast number of countries that exist, there are dozens of cultural perspectives on the place of capital punishment in society. That representatives of each of these viewpoints could come to similar conclusions is prima facie...