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After Eluana - the image and the reality

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Errol Morris, the documentary-maker whose films include The Fog of War, and Standard Operating Procedure, is a man who is interested in images, and in particular photographs. To mark the end of the Bush administration, at the end of January, Morris invited three photo editors to discuss a selection of images of W. ranging from [...]

What a coup - Berlusconi and the Italian government come out against the right to die

Monday, February 9th, 2009

It was without a doubt a media coup, when Berlusconi announced on Friday that he would be pushing forward a special decree to intervene in the case of Eluana Englaro. And, not just a media coup, for some.
 The Englaro case been in the media spotlight for months, since a definitive sentence was handed out by [...]