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- PERSONHOOD AMENDMENT Proposal would create questions that need answers Joseph Oppelt's letter in Wednesday's Gazette was a bit contradictory to me ("Biology tells us life begins when sperm fertilizes egg"). He stated that human life begins at fertilization and used that to support the...
- Research articles 2008-05-09
- Prologue to a voluntarist War Convention.
- This Article attempts to identify and clarify what is genuinely new about the "new paradigm" of armed conflict after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Assuming that sound policy counsels treating certain aspects of the global struggle against modern transnational terrorist networks within the legal rubric...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- Sienna Architecture Co. hires Barbara Browning
- Sienna Architecture Co. has hired Barbara Browning as a designer. Browning is a member of the Association of Women Architects and an associate AIA member. She holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Washington. She assists in business development and project conception.
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- The "desert" model for sentencing: its influence, prospects, and alternatives
- INTRODUCTION THE DECLINE OF THE REHABILITATIVE ETHOS IN SENTENCING THEORY in the post-1960s is a story that has been told often (see, for example, Allen, 1981) and need not be rehearsed here. * Penal treatment programs, once tested for their effectiveness, showed scant success--or at most, succeeded only in...
- Research articles 2007-06-22
- Fat lovers face slimmer chance of parenthood
- PARIS AFP — Love handles might help couples get a better grip but all that excess fat could dampen their chances of having a baby, a new study has shown. Researchers monitoring nearly 48,000 couples in Denmark between 1996 and 2002 found that when both parents were clinically obese,...
- Research articles 2007-03-08
- Poles demonstrate for abortion rights
- WARSAW AFP — More than 1,200 people marched in Warsaw on Sunday to urge changes to Poland's restrictive abortion laws and counter a bill to have a "right to life from the moment of conception" added to the country's constitution. Rallied by feminist and leftwing organisations, the demonstrators gathered...
- Research articles 2007-03-04
- Portuguese Catholic leaders rally faithful against abortion vote
- LISBON AFP — "Abominable crime", "variation of capital punishment", "attack on civilisation", "deliberate murder": these are the cries of the Portuguese Church as it calls its faithful to stand up against abortion. Predominantly Roman Catholic Portugal has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe, but voters on February...
- Research articles 2007-01-23
- Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination.(Book review)
- Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination. By Yaron Peleg. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. 153 pp. $35. As the specter of Edward Said's Orientalism persists in casting a defining imprint on Middle East studies, Peleg argues that Said's conception of Orientalism, the study by Westerners...
- Research articles 2006-09-22
- Canadian rancher claims moose and mare produce odd-looking colt
- MONTREAL AFP — A rare mating of a wild moose and a mare likely resulted in the birth of a funny-looking colt with a big head and long legs, a rancher in French-speaking Quebec province said. But veterinarians are conducting tests to confirm his claim. Bambi, born 11...
- Research articles 2006-07-24
- Religious Law and Secular Law in Democracy: The Evolutions of the Roman Catholic Doctrine After the Second Vatican Council
- I. INTRODUCTION A recurring jurisprudential conflict in modern law is the extent to which religious communities may appropriately seek to have their own religious norms incorporated into secular law. In the Muslim world, that issue takes on life and death significance.1 Conflict arises when the question goes beyond asking whether...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- 5 PICKS: SWING IN STYLE...SNEAK PEEK...CHARMED.(Bobbito Garcia)(Arne Jacobsen's Series Seven chai)(Aaron Basha )
- Byline: Brian Russak, Jennifer Carofano, Eric Newman SWING IN STYLE Fifty years after its conception, Arne Jacobsen's Series Seven chair has gotten a makeover - in fact, it's gotten 14 of them. Camper, whose playful interpretation is pictured above, was one of...
- Research articles 2006-04-10
- A seminar with Talcott Parsons at Brown University: "My Life and Work" Saturday, March 10, 1973
- Seminar Faculty: Robert M. Marsh, Martin U. Martel, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Albert F. Wessen, and C. Parker Wolf in sociology; and A. Hunter Dupree in the history of science. Faculty Visitors: George H. Borts and Mark B. Schupack economics, Erwin C. Hargrove political science, and Philip L. Quinn philosophy of science....
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- The constitutional status of tort law: due process and the right to a law for the redress of wrongs.
- In our legal system, redressing private wrongs has tended to be the business of tort law, itself traditionally a branch of the common law. But do individuals have a "vested interest" in law that redresses wrongs? If so, do state and federal governments have a constitutional duty to provide that...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- No toilets in park.(transsystemic educational program)(Canada)
- The undergraduate law curriculum adopted at McGill University in 1998--the transsystemic programme--was born of the unique political, social, and intellectual histories of its Faculty of Law. This essay reviews these contexts and characterizes the programme as an ongoing conversation about law, language, and knowledge that has...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- Why fetuses do not feel pain.
- Byline: Andy Coghlan and Emma Young Sep 06, 2005 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- In many countries, the scientific problem of whether foetuses feel pain has legal ...
- Research articles 2005-09-06
- The emergence of global administrative law.(Global Administrative Law)
- INTRODUCTION: THE UNNOTICED RISE OF GLOBAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW Emerging patterns of global governance are being shaped by a little-noticed but important and growing body of global administrative law. This body of law is not at present unified--indeed, it is not yet an organized field...
- Research articles 2005-06-22
- Pope says he has a duty to combat wrong ideas of freedom
- ROME AFP — Pope Benedict XVI formally took over the bishopric of Rome, thereby ending the ceremonies surrounding his inauguration as pontiff, and issued a warning that it was a papal duty to fight what he called wrong interpretations of freedom. The ceremony took place in the Saint John...
- Research articles 2005-05-07
- The very order of things: Rousseau's tutorial republicanism *.
- Rousseau's political theory has seemed to many to contemplate the radical transformation of human character through invasive governmental practices. But a classical republican reading of his general concern with moeurs and his developed conception of statecraft shows why he called for regulating or redirecting psychic dispositions, not destroying and then...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Charles Sanders Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) was one of America's most important philosophers. Many of his writings were not published until after his death, but he made important contributions in both philosophy and science. His work in logic helped establish the philosophical school of thought known as pragmatism. Charles...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Pope to go ahead with traditional December 8 ceremony: Vatican
- VATICAN CITY AFP — The Vatican confirmed that Pope John Paul II will preside as usual over the traditional prayer service at the Spanish Steps in central Rome on December 8, contrary to earlier reports. "As is customary, the Holy Father is scheduled to go to Piazza di Spagna...
- Research articles 2004-11-26
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