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...every other car is called "Sunny" and even the supermarkets style themselves "Sun Plazas." In 1987, when I first arrived in Japan, an American teacher of English in Kyoto told me that when she asked her students to choose an adjective with which to describe themselves, she had to ban the use of the word "cheerful," or else every girl in class would select it. Accentuating the positive is an article of faith here...
...wants to make sure that anyone else in her position is looked after properly." ? At this point, there's no guarantee that will happen. But the MoD is reviewing the entire issue of unmarried partners - from benefits to accommodation of homosexual couples following last year's lifting of the ban on gays in the military. The military doesn't want the Homsi case to set a precedent. Still, the official review is a sign, and not the only one, that Britain is re-evaluating how its rules fit a changing society. In July, Members of Parliament voted to extend pension...
ABBA will survive the ban, but Afghan musicians fear some forms of music are threatened with extinction. The archives of traditional Afghan folk songs at Kabul Radio, for example, are being destroyed. The sounds of silence, after all, are more reassuring to many governments than voices that have the power to move, to persuade and to protest. In the Sudan, musicians cannot perform after dark; in a Nigerian state where Islamic law is followed, a musician was recently imprisoned for singing. "In much of the Third World, people cannot read or write," says Marie Korpe, executive director of Freemuse...
...only a violation of the church's own social-justice teachings; these attempts are also likely to backfire (think Galileo and Martin Luther). In addition, at a time of a growing, worldwide shortage of priests (only 400 were ordained in the U.S. this year), such a ban is shortsighted. I am grateful that Sister Joan and her congregation are willing to accept the risk of speaking out on this issue. Many of us (myself included) who work within the church are afraid to speak out publicly for fear of losing our jobs. In the 21st century, that fact itself...
...expecting to see a reference to a book by Miriam Therese Winter, Out of the Depths: The Story of Ludmila Javorova, Ordained Roman Catholic Priest. According to the book, during the cold war women were validly ordained as Catholic priests behind the Iron Curtain. The Vatican may ban the discussion of whether there should be female priests; it cannot deny the precedent. ALEXANDER CUDZEWICZ Scottsdale, Ariz...