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...daughter of Fred Phelps and a constitutional lawyer, like 11 of her 12 siblings, several of whom were also present—the demonstrators were there to protest Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz’s leadership of an HLS group looking at an anti-harassment code...
...stopped working in the U.S. three years ago, says sending money to Coatetelco has become more convenient and less expensive since his return. At the end of each month, he gets a call from his two sons, who are working illegally in Georgia. They give him a code number, and he drives or rides his horse four miles to the nearest Western Union, located in a government telegraph office, to pick up the $600 they spent $40 to wire to him. Less expensive remittance services are available at the nearby Banamex bank in Mazatepec, but so far, Patricio...
...sport from yelling at the line judge. - By Jim Ledbetter Feel Lucky? Fat Chance One-armed bandits often seem to have more than one leg up on Lady Luck. Now British advocacy group FairPlay says it has proof. It used an emulator, which "borrows" a gambling machine's programming code and plays it on a computer, to test the honesty of fruit machines. The program let FairPlay run through games backward to see what would happen if gamblers made different choices. The result? "All the common British machines we tested cheat," says spokesman Stuart Campbell. When the machine gives players...
...Pervez Musharraf. In the latest clash, on June 2, religious groups that control Pakistan's Northwest Frontier province declared that Shari'a law would be enforced in their territory?superceding the British-style legal system that is Pakistan's law of the land. Shari'a is the strict religious code that governs Islam. From now on, Arabic, the language of the Koran, will be obligatory in schools; girls 12 years and older will have to wear the head-to-toe veil known as the burqa, and women will not be allowed to leave home unaccompanied by a husband or male...
...Even if the country's physicians subscribed to the Hippocratic oath, the ancient moral dictum that guides Western medical workers, they would have to violate it. In China, doctors serve the all-powerful state, and when a professional code of conduct conflicts with the Party line, the latter often holds sway. "Of course it's an ethical problem," says a doctor who participated in Beijing's SARS cover-up. "We want to be honest, but if we don't go along, we can't exist...