Study Charts Murder of Journalists Worldwide

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2. Commentary by Rushworth M. Kidder:

A Culture of Scapegoats

It's more than 6,300 miles from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to Mifflin High School in Columbus, Ohio. Both were in the news last week, reminding us that behind every scapegoat there's a failed policy....

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3. What They're Saying:

Altruistic

"This is to avoid inducements for people to do this for a profit motive. It should be an altruistic motive. This should not be a commercial activity."

-- MIT cancer researcher Richard Hynes, discussing ethics guidelines for stem cell research released last week by a panel he co-led...

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4. Adelphia's Founding Family to Forfeit 95 Percent of Personal Assets

WASHINGTON

Adelphia Communications last week agreed to pay $715 million to resolve allegations of extensive financial fraud that led to the company's collapse in 2002, with funds going toward restitution for investors....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518431141

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5. House GOP Does About-Face on Changes to Ethics Rules

WASHINGTON

After months of taking a political beating in a dispute that has stalled ethics investigations, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives grudgingly voted last week to undo rule changes that they pushed through in January....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518434031

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6. Unable to Shake Scandal, Czech PM Resigns

PRAGUE

Succumbing to a lingering scandal over his financing of a luxury apartment, Czech Republic Prime Minister Stanislav Gross resigned last week after less than one year on the job....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518441631

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7. U.S. Government Offers $87,500 to Spurned Asylum Seeker

SAN FRANCISCO

The U.S. government last week agreed to pay $87,500 to a Kenyan woman who fled to the United States but was sent back by officials despite her fears that she would be beaten or killed upon returning to Africa....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518445174

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8. Supreme Court Turns Away POW Lawsuit, Voiding $959 Million Owed by Iraq

WASHINGTON

Former U.S. prisoners of war who were tortured by Saddam Hussein's regime during the 1991 Gulf War have no right to collect funds awarded to them in a 2002 lawsuit, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ruled last week...

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518452187

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9. Food Services Giant Sodexho Settles Racial Bias Suit for $80 Million

NEW YORK

Ending a class-action lawsuit, food services giant Sodexho Inc. agreed last week to pay $80 million to settle charges that it denied promotions and limited account offerings to black workers....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518454568

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10. Canada Launches Legal Action against Byrd Amendment in U.S. Court

NEW YORK

The Canadian government has launched a legal action in the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York against the Byrd Amendment, which allows U.S. competitors to receive duties imposed on Canadian goods by U.S. trade authorities who claim the Canadian products were unfairly subsidized or dumped in the U.S. markets....

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518461787

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11. Paper Examines Pros and Cons of 'Problem-Solving Courts'

NEW YORK

In a bid to stop both crime and its underlying causes, states and cities across the country are creating a new kind of court -- part judiciary, part therapist, part social services -- according to a report last week from the "New York Times."...

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518464495

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12. Research Report:

Journalists Killed Most Often by Murder, Not Accident: Study

From the Committee to Protect Journalists:

"Murder is the leading cause of job-related deaths among journalists worldwide, and the Philippines is the most murderous country of all, a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists [CPJ] has found. Iraq, Colombia, Bangladesh, and Russia round out CPJ's list of the 'Most Murderous Countries for Journalists.'..."

Full story: http://www.globalethics.org/redir/nl.html?d=5/2/2005&;id=05020518472091

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13. Quote from the Ethics File:

What You are Acting From

"I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from."

-- William Faulkner (U.S. writer, 1897-1962)

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