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...students were less likely to say that some harsh interrogation methods were unethical, but said the HRC opposes torture and also supports the Geneva Conventions. The authors of the study developed it after learning about the existence of a process for a doctor draft, according to head researcher J. Wesley Boyd. “If we were to get drafted we could become military physicians in two or three weeks, so we thought maybe we ought to see if [students] know anything about military ethics in general,” said Boyd, a clinical instructor in psychiatry at the Medical...
...Wesley Boyd, a psychiatrist with the Harvard-affiliated Cambridge Health Alliance, started the study after hearing media reports that U.S. doctors had been complicit in intense interrogations, torture and other abuses. Among the allegations: they let jailers know if prisoners were fit enough to survive abuse, shared medical information such as phobias or other vulnerabilities and altered the death certificates of detainees who died from mistreatment...
...been answering his phone lately, because ours has been ringing off the hook for three weeks straight with calls running 99-1 against this bill," said DeMint spokesman Wesley Denton. DeMint himself stood firm. "I appreciate the effort to fund border security, but there's simply no reason why we should be forced to tie amnesty to it," he said in a statement, referring to the $4.4 billion allotment. "If the Administration was serious about fulfilling the border security promises, then this funding should have been supported all along, not offered at the last minute to attract votes...
...Matthew P. Downer ’07 and Amber J. Wesley ’06 from North Central University, it was a White House romance. The pair worked as interns across the hallway from one another—he at the Office of Communications and she at the Office of Media Affairs—during the summer of 2005. “We started going out to lunches,” says Downer, “and it progressed from there.” Wesley remained in Washington, D.C., to work in the Department of Commerce while Downer completed...
Weighing Influence I enjoyed this year's TIME 100, featuring the most influential people in the world [May 14], especially the stories of everyday unsung heroes like U.S. Army Captain Timothy Gittins, Chinese blogger Zeng Jinyan and construction worker Wesley Autrey, who saved a man's life in the New York City subway. They prove you don't have to be a politician or a billionaire to do the right thing. In the end, simple acts of humanity and justice can change the world. I look forward to discovering what I can do to help our fragile planet. John Jacob...