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...object to the title of the proposal," an act to protect the civil rights of women and children," she said. "It sounds like chivalry...
...hung Parliament, the Liberal Democrats, who call the political center home, would be the object of intense wooing. Ashdown, 51, is ready. A comparative unknown on the national scene, he has been doggedly stumping the country pitching a message: Labour is a spent force, the Tories are uncaring, and "the realities of the ballot box" will make both parties "more realistic." As Ashdown defines it, realism is a fairer share of power for the movement that is heir to the great Liberal reformers of the 19th and early 20th centuries -- William Gladstone, Herbert Asquith and David Lloyd George...
...that this is not a matter of humanitarian issues versus practical ones. A sick child's need for an organ transplant is also a humanitarian issue. The case of Theresa Ann forces us to question whether a baby without the capacity for sentient experience can even be an object of humanitarian concern--whether, in fact, she can be called human...
...attention to detail that modern art neglects is evident in David's "The Death of Socrates." Both Ingres and David--to name a few neo-classicists--present us with paintings that stagnate: the subject, object and therefore the motivation is frozen. This immobility contrasts the modern artist's attempt to break stagnation by re-vitalizing contours...
...citizens, the constitutional bans on unreasonable search and seizure and cruel and unusual punishment should protect them from unjust violations of the body. But the courts have never reached a consensus about which punishments are cruel or unusual. And if the accused agrees to the penalty, who's to object...