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...vote also earned praise from animal welfare groups, who say that seals are sometimes skinned while still conscious. "The Parliament has hammered the final nail in the coffin of the sealing industry's market in the E.U.," said Lesley O'Donnell, from the International Fund for Animal Welfare. "The decision will save millions of seals from a horrible fate," added Humane Society International director Mark Glover...
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...years and is a former deputy director there. The museum, a private collector, and the artist himself all own an "original" of New Year's Eve on Ho Guom Lakeshore, a colorful lacquer painting of crowds out in their finest dress, according to Tiep. Purported originals of Playing the O An Quan, which once hung on the museum's walls, are now in galleries in both Singapore and Japan, according to Nora Taylor, an art historian and expert on Vietnamese painters who teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago...
...wasn't long before it became obvious that he couldn't be counted on to solidify an ever emerging but never quite stable conservative majority anchored at the time by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia, and often supported by the more moderate William Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor...
...that the introduction at trial of a coerced confession was a "harmless error" that shouldn't automatically result in the overturning of a guilty verdict on appeal. But the next year he outraged anti-abortion forces in a pivotal case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Souter joined with Kennedy and O'Connor in a joint opinion that upheld the "essential holding" of Roe v. Wade. Though in the same decision the three justices approved most provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act, a law that put limits on abortion rights, they had ensured the survival for years to come...