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...message is that they can do whatever they want. They are not rebuked for fear of hurting their feelings. Later, when parents and teachers try to impose rules and regulations, children react by becoming disrespectful and rebellious. They also see far too many adults and celebrities who act as if getting drunk and behaving like rowdy footballers is the ultimate way to have fun. Today's Britain is a society where responsibility, duty and respect for others are sadly lacking. J.Y. Yeung, Buderim, Queensland...
What Makes Terrorists Tick? I read about forensic psychiatrist Marc Sageman's new book, Leaderless Jihad, with great interest [March 31]. I think Sageman fails to answer this basic question: If suicide bombers act out of a sense of social injustice rather than psychopathology, why do they so often target noncombatants, including children? What could be more unjust than the killing of the innocent? An alternative explanation is that we are dealing with a different kind of psychopath, a paranoid who sees himself as the victim and all Jews and Westerners as the demonic enemy and persecutor. David Levinsky, BANDON...
...What was clerking for Thurgood Marshall like? CRS: It was an adventure. There was frequent drama because there were cases involving abortion, voting rights, the meaning of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and more. Marshall himself was larger than life—not self-important. He was full of amazing stories about presidents and civil rights leaders and great figures in American history—many of whom he actually knew, such as the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. Marshall was one of the world’s best storytellers and I would say that every...
...What is the most pressing legal issue facing the U.S. today? CRS: One very pressing constitutional question is the authority of the president to act on his own. Under what circumstances can the president act unilaterally? We don’t know the answer to this. In terms of individual rights there are two obviously pressing questions—the question of discrimination on the basis of disability on the constitutional side and in the interpretation of Americans with Disabilities Act, and the question of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. In terms of the horizon, the rights...
...points system marks a positive shift toward limiting UK immigration in order to solve problems among immigrants already in Britain. The points system is a departure from the endless revision of anti-discrimination acts—namely, the 1965 Race Relations Act recently expanded to include discrimination against religion and beliefs. Most importantly, the change reflects a realization that socioeconomic problems for some immigrant groups are more complicated, costly, and permanent than policy makers previously supposed...