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First Lady Laura Bush, along with tree growers Jim and Diane
Chapman, view the White House Christmas tree Monday after it
arrived at the North Portico of the White House by horse-drawn
wagon. The tree is an 18 1/2 foot Fraser fir grown in Wisconsin.
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Disney resigns, criticizes Eisner
Walt Disney Company Vice Chairman Roy E. Disney
resigned from the board of directors and called for
Chairman and Chief Executive Michael Eisner to do the
same on Monday. Disney is the last family member active
in the company, founded by his uncle, Walt Disney, and
has been on the board since 1967.
Disney resigned from the
board to spearhead an
effort to prevent a
corporate takeover. He
was instrumental in
bringing Michael Eisner
and Frank Wells into the
company and he was later
reinstated to the board.
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Disney, ally resign,
protesting Eisner
Investigation begins in Ohio police beating death
CINCINNATI (AP) — A man died
after being struck repeatedly by police
wielding metal nightsticks, and the
mayor said Monday a videotape
showed that the officers were defend
ing themselves.
The cause of death was under
investigation.
Black activists say the death Sunday
of Nathaniel Jones, 41, who was black,
was another example of brutality involv
ing Cincinnati police. The fatal shooting
of an unarmed black man by a white
police officer in April 2001 prompted
three nights of rioting in the city.
“How many of our people have to die
before the city decides to do something
about it?” said Nathaniel Livingston Jr.
of the Coalition for a Just Cincinnati.
The officers who were at the scene
Sunday were placed on administrative
leave, which is policy while investigators
examine any police encounter that results
in a death.
Sunday's confrontation was video
taped by a camera on a police cruiser.
After seeing the video, Mayor Charlie
Luken rejected activists’ demand that he
force police Chief Thomas Streicher Jr.
to resign.
“What I saw was a 400-pound man
violently attacking a police officer in a
manner that put the lives of police offi
cers at risk,” Luken said. “While the
investigations will continue, there is
nothing on those tapes to suggest that the
police did anything wrong.”
An employee at a fast-food restaurant
called 911 early Sunday to report that a
man had passed out on the grass outside.
Emergency personnel arrived and report
ed that the man was awake and “becom
ing a nuisance,” according to police radio
transmissions.
The first two officers to arrive were
shown on the video striking Jones after
he was warned to stay back. Jones then
lunged at one of the two white officers
and knocked him down. The officers kept
yelling “put your hands behind your
back” as they struggled to handcuff him.
They called for an ambulance when
Jones appeared to be in distress. He died
within minutes.
By Gary Gentile
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — A key ally
joined Roy E. Disney in resigning from
the Walt Disney Co. board Monday,
becoming the second vocal opponent
of chairman and chief executive
Michael Eisner to quit in two days.
Stanley Gold issued a long rebuke
to Eisner and the Disney board
Monday, seconding complaints made
Sunday by Roy Disney and further crit
icizing the board ad a rubber stamp to
senior management.
Gold repeated Disney’s calls for
Eisner to resign.
“It is clear to me that this board is
unwilling to tackle the difficult issues I
believe this company continues to
face,” Gold wrote. Among the prob
lems, he said, were “the cannibaliza
tion of certain company icons for short
term gain, the enormous loss of cre
ative talent over the last years, the
absence of succession planning and the
lack of strategic focus.”
Gold’s resignation comes as
Disney’s board begins meetings in
New York.
Gold played a key role along with
Roy Disney in 1984 to save the compa
ny from a takeover attempt and install
Eisner as chairman. He heads
Shamrock Holdings, which manages
Roy Disney’s investments.
Gold’s role has been diminished
over the past two years as he has
become more of a critic of Eisner’s per
formance.
Disney, 73, is the last family mem
ber active in the company, founded in
1923 by his uncle Walt and his father,
Roy O. Disney, who was the business
manager. He is quitting as chairman of
the company’s animation division.
Disney has called for Eisner’s resig
nation in the past, but the idea was
rejected by the board. On Sunday, he
sent a three-page letter to Eisner that
criticized the chairman’s leadership
over the past seven years, according to
The Wall Street Journal, which first
reported the story.
“It is my sincere belief that it is you
that should be leaving and not me,”
Disney told Eisner in the letter.
He accused Eisner of “muzzling”
his voice on the board.
“Michael, I believe your conduct
has resulted from my clear and unam
biguous statements to you and the
Board of Directors that after 19 years at
the helm, you are no longer the best
person to run the Walt Disney
Company,” Disney wrote.
The company said he is over the
mandated retirement age of 72.
The board’s presiding director, for
mer Sen. George Mitchell, confirmed
in a statement Sunday that the gover
nance and nominating committee
recently informed Disney that the age-
limit rule, instituted last year, should
apply to him.
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The decision to donate is left to the individual.
Organ donation is encouraged as an act of stewardship and
of compassion for those who are suffering.
Donation is a matter of individual conscience.
A high value is placed on acts of compassion.
Organ and tissue donation is an act of charity and love.
Pope John Paul II has stated that Christians should accept
this as a challenge to their generosity and fraternal love.
The decision to donate is left to the individual.
A resolution in 1982, recognizes the life-giving benefits of
donation. All Christians are encouraged to become donors
f, as part of their ministry to others in the name of Christ,
who gave His life that we may have life in its fullness. M
The decision to donate is left: to the individual. Organ
transplantation can be used to alleviate the suffering of
other human beings.
The decision to donate is left to the individual.
Nothing in Scripture contradicts organ donation.
Muslim scholars belonging to various schools of Islamic law
have cited the principle of the priority on saving human life
and have permitted organ donation and transplantation as a
necessity to procure that noble end.
Organ donation is a contemporary Mitzvah. When a human
life can be saved, it must be saved.
Donation contributes to the well being of humanity and can
be M an expression of sacrificial love for a neighbor in need.”
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to become organ donors as part of their mininstry to others
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