Vargas makes a humane and compelling case for assimilating undocumented individuals, but distorting history serves no purpose.
The nurse highlighted in the Cases column represents nursing well; nurses provide important and humane care to patients and families.
Hewitt and fellow high commissioners have raised the broader issue with the Foreign Office, urging officials to take a more humane approach in cases like Bryan's and Paulette Wilson's, a grandmother who lived and worked in the UK for 51 years, having arrived aged 10, before being told she was an illegal immigrant, being detained and threatened with forced removal to Jamaica.
The United States had long been looking westward, and now tended to regard England as an embarrassing ancestor, and a case for humane termination.
Richard Wagner, with his blatant anti-Semitism and his powerful and on some level humane operas, is a case in point: Some people feel his music should not be performed.
The neurologist Allan H. Ropper and his co-author, Brian David Burrell, offer an inside look, both feisty and humane, at difficult brain cases.
Birders, alarmed at the loss of once-common understory species like Red-eyed vireo and American woodcock, are calling for the management of the white deer population before more birds are lost -- "management," in this case, being humane-speak code for "hunting".
The logical answer, in this case, is the humane one.
To me it sounds kosher to say that John hiked further into the woods even though John has hiked a literal distance, and kosher to say that The Facebook birthday salutation is farther from the true spirit of conviviality than the greeting card is, even though Facebook's distance from humane practice is, in this case, metaphoric.
