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...have been thinking about it at the time, but Pope Benedict, in the course of his recent U.S. visit may have dealt a knockout blow to the liberal American Catholicism that has challenged Rome since the early 1960s. He did so by speaking frankly and forcefully of his "deep shame" during his meeting with victims of the Church's sex-abuse scandal. By demonstrating that he "gets" this most visceral of issues, the pontiff may have successfully mollified a good many alienated believers - and in the process, neutralized the last great rallying point for what was once a feisty...
Butter has a strange status in Japan. Historically, butter is a reminder of Japan's first contacts with the West - the islanders complained that the foreigners were bata-kusai , that is, "butter-stinkers." But since the 1960s, local butter making and consumption has been seen as a symbol of Japanese self-sufficiency in and mastery of an originally Western product. The shortage is a blow to that independent self-image...
...Small World" appears to lie in improved special effects and cross-promotional branding. As the Hong Kong ride's water propulsion system nudged our craft past scenes familiar from my childhood - the Taj Mahal, the rainforest, the singing mermaids - it became clear that the basic concept and signature, blocky 1960s motifs of Disney artist Mary Blair had been retained. The Hong Kong sets look more vibrant thanks to lighting techniques, while a more sophisticated sound system belts out "it's a world of hopes; it's a world of tears" in nine languages. The "Asia" component here has been expanded...
...fraud is too small to place such a burden as government-issued ID onto citizens. The most disheartening aspect of this decision is that the Indiana law is just one part of the voting mess that America currently faces. Many people assumed that the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was breaking the final barrier in opening voting booths to all Americans. But as the country has witnessed in horror in 2000 in Florida and with much less concern in Ohio in 2000 and 2004, the voting systems that we currently use are nowhere near ideal. In the history...
...setbacks for Obama's seemingly charmed presidential campaign have come one on top of the other lately. There was his admittedly clumsy comments in a private fund raiser about "bitter" small-town voters who "cling" to religion and guns, questions about his association with a 1960s-era terrorist and nitpicking in a recent debate over why he doesn't wear an American flag pin on his lapel...