Despite Boeing and American authorities standing behind the plane, regulators and carriers elsewhere are opting to ban the plane in the absence of clear information.
Tomás Ojea Quintana, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, said he'd received reports of "state involvement," with the authorities "standing by while atrocities have been committed before their very eyes, including by well-organized ultranationalist Buddhist mobs".
But this interesting image at least captures the actual presence of authorities standing guard against violence against this incarcerated man.
"It's an insult for anybody of authority or standing to sign off on him with their approval and say, 'Oh, he's forgiven,'" Cumberbatch explained.
The Pope also arrives in the United States at a time of deep concern among church leaders about the damage to their authority and standing caused by growing disclosures of sexual molesting of young people by priests.
Authority and standing are still essential attributes, but they do not come from hard power as much as from soft-power skills, problem-solving, cooperative approaches and personal self-restraint.
It was quite a scene: I watched a company of newly trained, proud and professional-looking Palestinian Authority troops, standing at attention, AK-47 assault rifles at their side, listening with obvious respect to the American general telling them: "What you've done has done more to advance the Palestinian national project than anything else..
