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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...residence is ungrounded. Scripture also condemns locking up a prisoner for months only on suspicion charges. Again, this is upon the decree that only Allah “knows the depths our hearts”, rather than secular rights granted to human agents, but international advocates would still be wise to cite and incorporate these elements in their struggle.Deneshyar notes that there is a clause which permits interference if illicit behavior is of a public nature. The public activity of Diadji Diouf and his colleagues, however, was not homosexual behavior. It was fighting AIDS, a disease for which Senegal receives...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Human Rights 2.0 | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

...There they were, looking great, cracking wise, the winners getting moist on camera, the losers welling up in private in the bathrooms. One Brit producer said the F word (in joy, not anger), an American director gave his winning star the finger, and The Office's Ricky Gervais provoked a collective intake of breath, rather than the laugh he was hoping for, when he said, "The trouble is, with Holocaust films there's never any gag reel on the DVDs." Virtually all the town's royalty - except, unaccountably, those two prime party animals, Jack Nicholson and George Clooney- had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Golden Globes Go to the Dogs | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

...complex critters might be glad to be part of a species that's free of such Draconian sexual rules, but Liebig doesn't think it's wise to get above ourselves. All manner of lawsuits, divorces and blood feuds can erupt over people breeding when - or with whom - they oughtn't. Often, the methods used to expose the cheaters aren't terribly different from those of the ants: more than one philanderer, after all, has been exposed by a whiff of the wrong perfume on his clothes when he came home. "The idea that social harmony is dependent on strict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Rule of the Ant Colony: No Hanky-Panky | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

Linehan also taught Lily various skills to regulate her emotions. Among the most important is one Linehan calls the "wise mind" - a kind of calm, Zen state that Linehan insists even the most debilitated patients can achieve. "Generally," she writes, "I have patients follow their breath ... and try to let their focus settle into their physical center, at the bottom of their inhalation. That very centered point is wise mind." Lily remembers this sensation clearly; she came to feel that her dark moods had a physical location in her body - her solar plexus - and when she focused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mystery of Borderline Personality Disorder | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...Even some Iraqis see value in keeping the camp intact. "We have many differences with Iran, and Iran is very deeply involved in Iraq, so I don't think it's wise to end the Iranian resistance," said Salah al-Mutlaq, a Sunni member of parliament from the Iraqi National Dialogue Front. "For the Americans, surrendering the Mujahedin-e Khalq file to the Iraqi government is a big mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iranian Group a Source of Contention in Iraq | 1/5/2009 | See Source »

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