Why we execute people is the big question, not how. “There’s no nice way to kill someone,” a man facing execution once told me, raising heavy eyes.
A Political Crackdown at University of North Carolina - The New Yorker. On January 16th, Tom Ross, the president of the University of North Carolina, and John Fennebresque, the chair of its board of governors, held a press conference to announce that the board had asked for and received Ross’s resignation.
With Ross sitting beside him, Fennebresque insisted, in effect, that he had been fired for no reason. Ross had been successful in every way, he told reporters: “exemplary” in his handling of recent athletic scandals, and a model of “work ethic” and “perfect integrity.” “There was no precipitating event,” Fennebresque, who looked by turns mournful and defensive during the twenty-minute exchange, said. “He’s been wonderful.” In response to a series of questions, Fennebresque insisted that the decision was not about politics, at least not “to the best of my knowledge.”
Tips for using Healthplanfinder. Originally published September 21, 2013 at 8:08 PM | Page modified September 26, 2013 at 4:11 PM If you’re in the market for a new health-insurance plan, you’ll want to go directly to www.wahealthplanfinder.org.
That’s the Washington Healthplanfinder site developed by the Washington Health Benefit Exchange, the public-private company set up by the Legislature to manage the health-insurance marketplace in Washington state under the Affordable Care Act. The first thing most people will want to access on the site is the cost-estimate calculator, a tool to help you figure out how much you’re likely to pay for insurance. On the Healthplanfinder home page, simply click on the Go To Calculator button under the calculator icon on the right side of the page. As you’ll see, the calculator offers three main data fields: Household Information, Enrollee Information and Monthly Cost. A user's guide: 20 things to know about the Affordable Care Act. Hat do you need to know about the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, the health-reform law or the “federal health-care overhaul”?
Investigative Reporter. What it Means to Serve your Country. Serving my country was an inflection point--it set my life on a new course.
A former Marine, I find myself in a constant pursuit of re-attaining the meaningfulness of those four years, chasing the feeling I had when my profession involved working in challenging conditions with teams of great people to solve big problems whose scope exceeded personal gain. RPCVs Shaping Public Policy: NPCA's September Advocacy Update. Asiana offers $10,000 to survivors of San Francisco crash. SEOUL, South Korea — Asiana Airlines Inc. has offered $10,000 to each of the 288 surviving passengers of the flight that crash landed in San Francisco last month.
Asiana spokeswoman Lee Hyomin said Tuesday the payout is not a settlement and accepting the money does not prevent passengers from suing the airline. “Regardless of the degree of the injury, we are offering $10,000 to everyone,” Lee said. “There could be situations when the money is urgently needed and this could reduce inconveniences.” Boys Clubs. The entire staff of techno-libertarian think tank TechFreedom. 7:18 pm • 19 November 2014 • 7 notes The entire leadership team and advisory board of The Can Kicks Back, an advocacy group founded to “educate, organize and mobilize young Americans in order to promote a sustainable and generationally equitable federal budget.” 8:09 am • 23 August 2014 • 17 notes.
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It's like telling people not to steal or kill. You can ignore the fact that some people do not respect you OR you could be responsible and take precautions. By Dan Archer - Comics. Click on the thumbnail galleries or links below to read the comics in full screen versions.
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'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistleblower. Hate Crimes in the United States. Loading The killings of James Byrd and Matthew Shepard, among other senseless acts of hatred, remind Americans that violence based on racial and other prejudices still occurs. Other brutal examples include a spree of hate-motivated shootings over the 1999 July 4th weekend in Illinois and Indiana, the murder of two gay men in California, and arson attacks on Sacramento synagogues. In August of 1999, a man with ties to white supremacist organizations is alleged to have opened fire at a Jewish daycare center in Los Angeles and murdered a Filipino-American postal worker.
And on July 4, 2000, J.R. Charter for Compassion. The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect.
It is also necessary in both public and private life to refrain consistently and empathically from inflicting pain. State legislative elections results, 2012. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum. The Council for Disability Rights. Current Female Leaders. Leftright_US_1416.gif (GIF Image, 1415 × 1022 pixels) - Scaled (59%) White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh. The Worst Part of Paul Ryan's Budget - Derek Thompson. Even if you like Ryan's Medicare and Medicaid reforms, his budget is essentially a plan to demolish every other government program outside of Social Security and defense Reuters Paul Ryan's budget takes us back to 1950. Dubin.pdf (application/pdf Object) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Solitude of Self," Address before the U. S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage, February 20, 1892.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Solitude of Self," Address before the U. S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage, February 20, 1892. Berkman_plutzer.pdf (application/pdf Object) 'Globals' Generation Focuses On Experience. Hide captionJennifer Larr (center) is seen here in Rwanda at the Gashora Girls Academy, where she was a teacher in 2011. Larr is part of a new generation of young adults focusing on travel, studying abroad and global experiences. The 'Busy' Trap. Anxiety: We worry. A gallery of contributors count the ways.
Communication Across Barriers. Policing the Police. Alternative Radio. From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, And Feminism - Patricia Hill Collins. Children of Immigrants Are America's Science Superstars. Adding fuel to the fiery debate over immigration policy, a study released Tuesday shows that top science achievers in the U.S. are overwhelmingly the children of immigrants. The study, conducted by the National Foundation for American Policy, found that 70 percent of the finalists in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search competition -- also known as the "Junior Nobel Prize" -- were the children of immigrants even though only 12 percent of the U.S. population is foreign-born. According to the report, children of immigrant parents have been increasingly dominant in the fields of math and science. US Politics.