"Alfredo is an outstanding surgeon, and takes very humane and very skilled care of patients with brain tumors, " says Dr. Henry Brem, chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

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"France still has the odd percentage of films that make it internationally, like Xavier Beauvois's 'Of Gods and Men, ' which had a very appealing humane message, " the actor adds.

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"I am very impressed by their efforts to be humane and to accommodate, " said Sally Regenhard, mother of Brooklyn firefighter Christian Michael Regenhard, who was lost in the Trade Center collapse.

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"This is a very big trade, " says Mark Jones from Humane Society International.

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Tories were "very much like the rest of the population - decent, tolerant, humane but desperately concerned to see the criminals brought under control, to see decent citizens back in charge of our neighbourhoods, " Mr Letwin told BBC One's Breakfast with Frost programme.

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"We have animals trickling in very slowly, " said Rowdy Shaw, a senior field responder on the Humane Society of the United States' animal rescue team.

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Presuming, as one must, that she did greatly influence her husband, she earns credit for feeding the humane impulse that made him hold back from unleashing the organs of repression still very much at his disposal when the Soviet empire began to unravel from 1989 on.

ECONOMIST: Raisa Gorbachev