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Incoming European Commission President José Manuel Durão Barroso faces an uproar in the European Parliament that could cost him his job before it's even slated to begin on Nov. 1. Barroso's problem starts with his designated Commissioner for Justice, Security and Freedom, Rocco Buttiglione, formerly Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi's Minister for European Affairs. When he testified on Oct. 5 before the Parliament, Buttiglione mentioned that he considers homosexuality a sin and holds the "traditional" view that marriage is meant to give a "woman the right to have children and the protection...
While medical progress can only be attained by questioning present therapies and the conventions upon which they are based, ultimately dissuading practitioners and parents alike from considering antidepressants can only do harm—especially when the present uproar is not even based on actual suicides. This is exactly what the chosen labels, which are the most cautionary and daunting of any issued by the FDA, have already begun to accomplish...
...Belleville in Paris' east end. "I didn't have to grow up with this, and I don't want my kids to have to." He's not alone. The Jewish population of France - at 600,000, the world's largest outside Israel and the U.S. - is in an uproar. "At my synagogue, it doesn't matter whether you talk to a doctor or a worker - all of them want to leave," says Elbeze. And more and more are doing so. French immigration to Israel climbed to 2,083 last year from 1,366 in 1999, according to the Jewish Agency...
...mistake I made was in not clarifying that I wasn't talking about 'all' ... There are people who are striving and working." BILL COSBY, entertainer, trying to quell an uproar over his remarks a week earlier in which he decried the high dropout rate among inner-city blacks and criticized families for "not parenting...
...problem in sports marketing, particularly in baseball, is you're always walking a very sensitive line. Nobody loves tradition and history as much as I do." BUD SELIG, baseball commissioner, on the uproar over the decision, revoked one day later, to advertise the movie Spider-Man 2 on base covers at major league games...