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...showing adult characters smoking causes young people to smoke. Amidst all the cultural messages young people receive, film dramatizations can’t compare to the influence of friends, family, teachers, and doctors, among others. Besides, if we accept the fact that minors should not see films depicting unhealthy behavior, they will not see movies about anorexia, war, drug abuse, suicide, and many other topics – even though these films might help them understand the world better...
Nothing the Bush Administration said or did could contain the damage. The President, who says he first learned of the existence of the photographs when they were aired two weeks ago on CBS's 60 Minutes II, went on Arab television to proclaim the abusive treatment "abhorrent" behavior that "does not represent the America that I know." His words weren't enough to dent the outrage of Muslims who wondered why he failed to apologize. A day later Bush finally said he was sorry, but America's image in much of the Arab world may well be irredeemable. U.S. officials...
...blatant and wanton abuse" for months. The Army is investigating reports of crimes committed at other detention facilities in Iraq. Testifying before the Senate last Friday, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said the Pentagon has obtained more photos and video footage that show U.S. troops engaged in even worse behavior. "We're not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience," Senator Lindsey Graham said. "We're talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges." A senior Pentagon official tells TIME that the Pentagon is considering the possibility of showing the unseen material to members of Congress...
...companies are coming to us and preparing responses shows that they’re worried and that what we’re doing is working,” he says. “The point of divestment is not to screw companies, it’s to change corporate behavior.” Ganong says he knows divestment will not stop the genocide in Darfur on its own. “But among what’s in our power,” he says, “do I think it’s the best thing that Harvard...
Gross promised to create a Web site this summer that would explain “what constitutes improper behavior...