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Concluding that neural firings are the only reality denies a more transcendent meaning. We all grow old, and like Woody Allen, we wish we would not. Our soul is an immortal, stationary bedrock, evidenced by our acute perception of time passing. We perceive time because it is separate from us. If we were caught up in it, we would not perceive it. Time takes bits and pieces of what lies on the bedrock--our health, our looks, our energy--but the bedrock of our soul, with its desire for life, joy, meaning and immortality, is only shaped and smoothed...
...Chavez's bedrock support among the poor, shored up by the government programs that ensure cheap food and free health care, that once again ensured his victory. Unless the opposition is able to find a message and policies that resonate with the impoverished majority, it will remain in the political wilderness...
...that regards all cultural values as equal. While Islamic fundamentalists intimidate the West by manufacturing outrage against novels, cartoons, lectures, essays and theater productions, the U.N. complies with Muslim prohibitions against speaking freely about Islam. The freedom to think and express oneself-and even mock authority figures-is the bedrock of Western values, and to defend this freedom it appears necessary to disband the U.N. and develop other international and regional organizations. Jiti Khanna Vancouver...
...promote gender equality and freedom of expression. While Islamic fundamentalists intimidate the West by manufacturing outrage against novels, cartoons, lectures, essays and theater productions, the U.N. complies with Muslim prohibitions against speaking freely about Islam. The freedom to think and express oneself - and even mock authority figures - is the bedrock of Western values, and to defend this freedom, it appears necessary to disband the U.N. and develop other international and regional organizations. Jiti Khanna Vancouver Cutting Our Losses Leslie Gelb's viewpoint "The Dominoes That Did Not Fall" [Oct. 23] argued that, after the U.S. defeat in Vietnam, "the dominoes...
...economy, and the need to cultivate energy supplies beyond the Middle East. With Angola recent superseding Saudi Arabia as China's largest supplier of oil, Beijing sees the policy as a success, and it is unlikely to be put at risk by prioritizing political concerns. And, of course, the bedrock of China's foreign policy has always been non-interference in the internal affairs of other nations - a principle that protects China's own treatment of its citizens from international reproach...