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Common In Workplace Abuse – R. Kelly Was Aided By A Network Of Complicity – That Enabled Crimes To Go On For Decades
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Common In Workplace Abuse – R. Kelly Was Aided By A Network Of Complicity – That Enabled Crimes To Go On For Decades

Peggy Cunningham, Dalhousie University and Minette Drumwright, University of Texas at Austin R&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking charges on Sept 27, 2021, having been exposed as the ringleader of a decades-long scheme to recruit girls, boys and women to have sex with. During the six-week long trial, jurors heard harrowing testimony from a succession of survivors of Kelly’s abuse. Witnesses also revealed how members of the 54-year-old’s entourage assisted, enabled and helped cover up the singer’s crimes. As professors who have researched unethical behavior for many years, we found the patterns revealed in Kelly’s trial to be classic examples of how unethical, even criminal, conduct can persist in organizations for long periods of time, often as an...
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People Under Conservator-Ship Aren’t Free To Marry Who They Want – Even Britney Spears
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People Under Conservator-Ship Aren’t Free To Marry Who They Want – Even Britney Spears

Disability and marriage have an especially fraught relationship in American history. Sara Luterman Originally published by The 19th On Sunday, Britney Spears announced her engagement to her longtime boyfriend, Sam Asghari. Spears’ Instagram account appears to be on hiatus, but a defiant announcement remains on Asghari’s account – a photo of Spears and Asghari kissing, their faces hidden behind Spears’ outstretched, adorned ring finger. While it might look like an ordinary celebrity announcement, it’s actually much more. Spears is claiming a right stripped of her under her conservator-ship: the right to marry. Conservator-ship is a legal arrangement in which someone, usually a family member, is appointed by a judge to manage the finances or daily life of another person due to incapac...
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Reconsidering The Britney Spears Case – Requires Reconsidering How Society Thinks About Decision-Making Capacity
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Reconsidering The Britney Spears Case – Requires Reconsidering How Society Thinks About Decision-Making Capacity

Elyn Saks, University of Southern California Britney Spears’ impassioned remarks in court have raised many questions about conservator-ships, including when they’re necessary and whether they effectively protect someone’s best interests. When one loses the capacity to make decisions for oneself the court appoints a guardian, or conservator, to make those decisions. Appointing someone to make decisions about personal and financial matters on another’s behalf has been part of civil society since the ancient Greeks. Today, all jurisdictions in the U.S. have conservator-ship laws to protect people who lack the ability to make their own decisions. As a distinguished professor of law at the University of Southern California, and as a person who was diagnosed over four decades ago with chronic...
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Britney Spears Conservator-Ships Can Lead To Abuse – Here’s Why
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Britney Spears Conservator-Ships Can Lead To Abuse – Here’s Why

Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia “I’m here to get rid of my dad and charge him with conservatorship abuse,” Britney Spears told a California court on July 14, 2021. She said that he was ruining her life, and in previous testimony she claimed that a team led by her father controlled her schedule, prevented her from having another baby and bullied her. She may soon get her wish after the judge in the case said she could hire her own lawyer, former prosecutor Mathew Rosengart, who plans to file paperwork soon to end the conservatorship on her behalf. To terminate a conservatorship, California law simply requires the filing of a petition demonstrating that it is no longer required. Spears’ case is unusual: Conservatorships are typically not imposed on someone who doesn’t have severe cogni...
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Towards Wakanda – Chadwick Boseman’s passing and the power and limits of Afrofuturism
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Towards Wakanda – Chadwick Boseman’s passing and the power and limits of Afrofuturism

If you’re not a comics fan, you may have been surprised at the extent of the heartfelt grief expressed following the death of actor Chadwick Boseman. One explanation lies in the extraordinary power of the 2018 movie Black Panther, in which Boseman starred as T’Challa/Black Panther, to address racist stereotypes about Africa and Africans. Boseman’s character was heir to the hidden kingdom of Wakanda, a mythical African nation free of European colonisation. The film’s subtext explores African Americans’ varying identifications, past and present, with Africa and a global Black diaspora. Dark continent Westerners’ ideas about Africa are steeped in myth. The United States, wrote German philosopher Georg Hegel in 1830, was “the land of the future”. Africa, by contrast, was “the land of chi...
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Watch Movies and Tv Series for Free in Hd
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Watch Movies and Tv Series for Free in Hd

Are you tired of subscribing to too many online streaming services? Has your pocket lost its weight in recent times just because you wanted to watch five different series altogether? If so, then you are in the right place. Cmovies is here for you. Catering to people from all over the world offers a wide selection of movies and series. And that too, for free! It does not even compromise on picture and audio quality. It is a one-stop destination for all the latest and top-rated movies and series. What else can one look for? If you are still not convinced, then read below why it is time to shift to a platform like Cmovies. • MOVIES AND TV SERIES FROM ALL AROUND Now, you do not have to wait forever for a movie or TV series to release in your country. It may take years for it to release...
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7 Quarantine Playlists to Soothe Your Corona Blues
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7 Quarantine Playlists to Soothe Your Corona Blues

The YES! Editorial team has been working in overdrive to churn out the coronavirus coverage you all need right now. From mutual aid efforts to tips on staying social while social distancing, we want to keep inspiring and informing you. However, I’ll admit, the constant barrage of coronavirus news can take its toll on one’s emotional and mental states—not to mention the heaviness that comes with socially distancing from our families and loved ones. In Seattle, I’ve been self-quarantining for about four weeks now, and it’s been a challenge to fill my downtime with activities that feel nourishing. But a constant, calming companion through all of this has been music. I’ve been losing myself in songs that take me far away from the news, songs that evoke lightheartedness that rise above pandemi...
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Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Austen’s ‘Emma’
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Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Austen’s ‘Emma’

The latest film adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic “Emma” is a visual feast of color, pattern and texture. Emma up front and center in new adaptation of classic novel. Focus Features It’s also a bit too perfect. The colors are too vibrant, the skin too clear, the homes too opulent, the landscapes too gorgeous, the fabrics without any stain or wear. Every frame of director Autumn de Wilde’s version feels like a still-life painting or Instagram-ready photograph. Perfection features explicitly in both de Wilde’s film, which has been given an early digital release as theaters close due to coronavirus concerns, and Austen’s novel. In making Emma too perfect, the film becomes Emma’s fantasy of her own life rather than Austen’s more balanced portrayal of her heroine’s many faults. As an Aust...
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Technology is remaking the theater experience
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Technology is remaking the theater experience

Media companies, using the latest technology, are reshaping the experience of going to the theater. When Comedian James Corden kicked off the Tony Awards this year, his opening number was a full-throated endorsement of the live theatrical experience. "It's live, we do it live, and every single moment's unrepeatable," the late-night TV host sang. "There is a visceral bliss you only get in a theater seeing people do this." Turns out he was not correct. These days, you can watch a Broadway musical from a subway train seat. You can get your stage fix at your local movie theater or hear a play while jogging. Theater just is not what it used to be. Media companies armed with the latest in technology like Fathom Events, Audible Inc and BroadwayHD are reshapi...
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Film studios may soon be able to buy theaters if rules change
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Film studios may soon be able to buy theaters if rules change

A 70-year-old antitrust settlement currently bars Hollywood studios from owning theaters. The U.S. Justice Department will ask a court to terminate a 70-year-old antitrust settlement that barred Hollywood studios from owning theaters or trying to force movie houses from playing films they didn’t want. The agreements, known as the Paramount Pictures consent decrees, no longer serve the public interest, Makan Delrahim, the head of the department’s antitrust division, said in a speech in Washington Monday. The U.S. Justice Department will ask a court to terminate a 70-year-old antitrust settlement that barred Hollywood studios from owning theaters or trying to force movie houses from playing films they didn’t want. The agreements, known as the Param...
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