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Bitter Memories Germany's anti-Nazi laws are both unjust and paranoid [Aug. 24]. America's First Amendment should apply throughout the world. There should be free speech for everyone, including communists, fascists, Marxists, Nazis, racists, religious maniacs and Trotskyists. Evelyn Beatrice Hall summarized Voltaire's argument thus: I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Mark Taha, LONDON...
...Cherish Old Allies (and Cultivate New Ones) It's no small matter that China, and not the U.S., is now Japan's largest trading partner. If overleveraged America really is destined to be mired in a postconsumerist funk for the foreseeable future, Japan needs to redouble its efforts to strengthen trade and diplomatic ties with its neighbors - not only to counteract China's growing influence in Asia, but also to grab a greater share of fast-growing Asian markets. "Japan can benefit from high Asian growth rates even with low domestic demand," says JPMorgan's Kanno. Closer relationships with Asian...
...deserves a much broader definition than something as trivial as wardrobe alone, and a J.Crew wardrobe at that. Yet the media would have her transformed into another fashion icon or, as Vogue’s André Leon Talley said recently, “the most fashionable woman in America.” As if her fashion sense were the sole characteristic that defined...
...Obama’s back-to-school speech was given to a future, healthy America from a hale part of the past. The current backlash only shows that the theme of simple responsibility must be emphasized even more...
...pages of his books and along the campaign trail, the president wasn’t shy about saying America is losing something that used to be omnipresent: A sense of mutual responsibility tied to sense of respect for those with a different view of what that mutual responsibility entails...