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...essential to the republican contract.” Sarkozy’s statement clearly invokes the language of human and, especially, women’s rights. But it is very difficult to discern exactly whose—and especially which women’s—“dignity?? this law actually preserves...
...effort to help those living in poverty, Khan said Amnesty International is broadening its scope to include prisoners of poverty and discrimination as well as “prisoners of conscience.” The organization just announced their “Demanding Dignity?? campaign, which seeks to eradicate poverty by empowering people to reclaim their voice from those who repress them, Khan said...
...Love and Theft,’” and for a lesser collection it would seem impossible to match that song’s first moments. But Dylan succeeds in more unexpected ways as the album unfolds. Both versions of the gospel ballad “Dignity?? manage to be moving, yet distinct from the other in arrangement and lyrical delivery. “God Knows,” an “Oh Mercy” outtake, harks back to the more propulsive, Hawks-driven days of Dylan’s 1960s height. More traditional outings...
...Many Americans hold that certain forms of human commodification, such as organ sales, should be illegal on the grounds that they violate human dignity. Even if we accept this idea of dignity??which is somehow desecrated by the sale but not the donation of kidneys, and which applies to these organs but not the other aforementioned body parts—is the preservation of this abstract idea worth restricting a person’s control over his or her body and putting another person’s life at risk? We must base the law, not on these...
...reasons—and Madonna’s reasoning, whatever it may be, is certainly not representative of all adoptive parents. I am sorry he is upset when he sees fellow Guatemalans being adopted, but I am not sure what a “country’s dignity?? is and I am sure I’d rather see people like my sister living a full life than in a “dignified” orphanage. JEFFREY S. BEHRENS ’89 Newton, Mass. October...