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...Singapore's Changi Airport. Australian officials lobbied unsuccessfully to stop his execution. Singapore rejected Nguyen's request to have a final hug with family members, but allowed his mother to hold his hand and touch his face and hair the day before he was hanged. Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock called the execution a "barbaric...
...PLOT AGAINST AMERICA PHILIP ROTH When Charles Lindbergh was elected President in 1940, it spelled trouble for the Roth family of Newark, N.J. The fictional President Lindbergh is an anti-Semite who appeases Hitler and casts the country into a dark, angry nightmare of riots and forced relocations, and the pressure divides Roth's family as well as the nation. This bizarro counterhistory isn't an allegory, and it makes no easy political points. It's cold, clear and frighteningly plausible...
...tricky. "There is no universal standard for what socially responsible really means," says Russel Kinnel, Morningstar's director of fund research. The Natural Capital Institute, a Bay Area research group, reported last year that some SRI funds invested in weaponmakers like Raytheon and in tobacco businesses like Altria (formerly Philip Morris). Says Kinnel: "Read your prospectus' fine print." It's also a good idea to think of SRIs as long-term investments. Why? Since they're typically underrepresented in oil and other stocks that are subject to price shock, they may under- or overperform depending on the season...
Last month, the New York Times’ Caryn James heralded a new trend for the winter movie season, an “explosion of Oscar-baiting performances in which straight actors play gay, transvestite or transgender characters.” Think about it—Philip Seymour Hoffman is the mincing Truman in “Capote,” Cillian Murphy is a pretty cross-dresser in “Breakfast on Pluto,” and Felicity Huffman is a midlife-crisis pre-op in “Transamerica.” And all that?...
...intelligent design debate. “Evangelicals thrive on being embattled—their identity is tied up into being attacked and their defending principles,” Edwards says. “Being attacked by science only validates their position.” But Philip D. Powell ’06, an Orthodox Christian, says he believes the intelligent design debate points to a larger desire to leave open the possibility for God in the universe.However, like Edwards and Moore, Powell says evolution and belief in God are not mutually exclusive. “In general...