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...here's the rub: what she sees in the media does affect that self-image, especially in terms of her body. Some experts recommend media-literacy classes--as early as kindergarten. "Children need to learn how to dissect and understand this pervasive aspect of their environment," says Gigi Durham, author of The Lolita Effect, "just as they learn to understand the seasons or Newton's laws of motion...
DIED The founder of a Tibetan-studies program at Indiana University and author of the autobiography Tibet Is My Country, Taktser Rinpoche was a committed and lifelong advocate for his homeland. Yet Rinpoche, who was born Thubten Jigme Norbu, didn't always see eye to eye with his younger brother, the Dalai Lama. Though they remained close personally, politically Rinpoche supported absolute independence, while the Dalai Lama worked toward a compromise of "meaningful autonomy." Rinpoche...
...basket. And second, anyone who thinks that about most of the places covered in Ghost Train is clearly not paying attention. The Cambodians, the Vietnamese, the Russians, the Indians - their world is "worsening?" Compared to 30 years ago? If Theroux actually believes that, it tells us more about the author, 30 years on, than the places he has visited...
...autonomy. It was the new Georgian government that unilaterally revoked this autonomous status. So, at a moment of crisis, what should Russia have done but come to the rescue of its people (although in military terms the way it was done was definitely disproportionate)? I wonder what the author thinks about the "solution" of the Kosovo crisis forced on Serbia by the "international community," or the equally forceful Palestinian-Jewish "solution" in 1948 agreed on primarily by Western nations? I wonder if what many regard as a wrong done by the "international community" is worth less than a wrong done...
...true revolutionary government of the left tries to transform the image of God to support a cultural transformation based on equality and social justice," says María López, author of various theological works, including Just Jesus and Another God is Possible. However, she says, the Ortega government is fostering a conservative "religion of dependence" based on the image of a mysterious and powerful...