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Clearly no isolated case, the Telekom affair is being cited as one more example of waning respect for basic civil liberties. Uwe Wesel, an emeritus law professor at Berlin's Free University, said German courts have generally upheld privacy laws, but that individuals in positions of power appear to have grown impatient with the law. "Although the language of the courts is very clear that this kind of behavior is not allowed, there does appear to be a certain cultural shift taking place," he says. "Perhaps driven by the debate about the threat of terrorism, certain standards are weakening...
...Mandatory health coverage is, first and foremost, meant to ensure that any student who needs access to basic health procedures will not be denied these for any reason, fiscal or otherwise. It is in this interest that the University offers us a comprehensive, rather than “à la carte,” health plan—one which includes elective abortions. This package of procedures is more than some default option—it is an active recognition on the University’s part that the covered procedures, when needed, are fundamental to a student?...
...poorest areas of Baghdad even before the most recent fighting worsened the humanitarian situation there. Some residents have complained that the Mahdi Army's grip on Sadr City, where U.S. and Iraqi forces previously did not go, has left them struggling to get what little of the basic services are available in the area. "You can't just blame the government for the shortages of services," said Haithem Hamid, another Sadr City resident. "Most of the blame goes to the Mahdi Army, which controls the economy and the social services, even fuel and local contracts. Anyone who defies these people...
...People say the United States is a meritocracy," says Galinsky. "But let's not be too quick to say that the hierarchy that exists today is a perfect demonstration of a meritocracy - that everyone is completely ordered by their abilities - because rank in a hierarchy fundamentally alters people's basic cognitive function." The findings further support the idea, for example, that disadvantaged socioeconomic groups remain entrenched in poverty because their position puts them at a psychological disadvantage, not because they lack the ability or intelligence to succeed. In the study's discussion, the authors suggest that the powerless in society...
...affair with someone her age (Trevor Howard) but married a wealthy, older man (Claude Rains). It's not one of the great director's masterpieces, but it had an emotional gravity that locates the difference between love and being in love, and it fulfilled the basic dictum of Golden Age movies: beautiful people with difficult problems, in radiant black-and-white. For me, it also had the romance of being made in a time when the British film industry believed in its own power to entrance - something that's long been lost...