| Would you donate your body to Gordon Brown?
In the context of today, I am less than keen on Brown's proposal to introduce a system of presumed consent. It could only shift the balance further away from the principle of personal autonomy and choice towards the assumption that the authorities know what is best for us – an increasingly prevalent notion in our culture, particularly around health issues. More concretely perhaps, whereas a campaign for more donations to medical science could win widespread public support, trying to impose such a formal rule risks further complicating relations between patients and medical staff, with the potential to deepen feelings of public mistrust and alienation. The government must bear a heavy responsibility for bringing about this unsatisfactory situation in the first place. New Labour now poses as the champion of organ donation for the greater good, with the support of leading medical bodies.
NRIs hop on airport buses for a ride home and back
Back from a 45-day stint in Holland to train for short and penalty corners, he is devoting at least an hour solely to perfect his penalty attack. The PHL is power play as no team can be written off and that is the charm of the tournament, feels Kanwal. Last year the Orissa team outplayed to prove how the best team on the day wins, remembers Kanwal. On his game Kanwal feels the rough patches are well behind him, the police games and the PHL are beginning of a new innings in his career. Wishing his fans to pray for him, Kanwals heart warms up at the thought of his greatest fan in his daughter Rehmat who will be cheering her dad heading the Sher-e-Jalandhar squad in the PHL. Josh with hosh is Tejbirs mantra Tejbir Singh has a penchant for coming back stronger than ever defeating every hurdle that he has had to face.
Big Zell Dis
Educating Mr. Wright: Man, it is a tough job, but somebody's got to bring these eggheads up to speed. ... 6:09 P.M. ___________________________ Mrs. Russert Blogs: Maureen Orth notes that "Elvis's death in 1977 rated two paragraphs in People Magazine." But, if memory serves, that's not entirely because the culture of celebrity wasn't well-developed back then (Orth's point). It's because in 1977 Elvis was not such a big deal. ... P.S.: Why isn't Orth blogging for HuffPo? Memo to Arianna: She seems like a natural fit. Memo to Orth: It's not bloggy to let a few little disagreements get in the way of mutually beneficial traffic-sharing. Enmity is so print. The Web's win-win! ... There, I've brought them together.... 12:56 A.M. ___________________________ Wednesday, August 22, 2007 New Orwell on Offense: Andrew Sullivan excoriates pundits who exhibited "spectacular misjudgment about the war in Iraq," something that he says "should consign the author to irrelevance." Fair enough.** [But Sullivan excludes anyone who "explicitly explained why he was wrong and apologized," and Sullivan has apologized, abjectly--ed.
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