Word: birthrights
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...Just like education, I want to make health care a birthright up to age 21,” he said...
...Such a mix-and-match attitude, Takizawa believes, is particularly suited to Japan. In places like Paris, high fashion is a luxury earned through maturity. But in Tokyo, it's a birthright. Gaggles of young women live at home, piling up enormous disposable incomes that make them the one bright spot in an otherwise moribund economy. With even high-school girls able to afford a Louis Vuitton handbag, the cachet of haute couture is rapidly wearing off. "People in Japan no longer feel they have to prove they're rich by wearing expensive labels," says Takizawa, who himself rarely wears...
Your chilling report on Saddam's progeny should wake us up to the dangers of power by birthright. I can only hope that the exposure of the excesses and cruelty of Saddam's sons will put other Middle East dictators on notice that someday they too may be fully exposed. RICHARD DAVID DORENSTREICH Aliso Viejo, Calif...
...occupation, although their eager questions about the Dalai Lama prove that nationalism isn't totally dead. In Chengdu, watching elaborate rallies celebrating 50 years of communist rule in China, French asks a Tibetan how he felt. "I suppose I was expecting ... a neat speech about the theft of his birthright and the pain of being a Tibetan caught in a false, imposed culture," French admits. But he got a simple, tragic response: "I feel nothing...
...Most astonishingly, David's transformed his tiny new apartment into a warm family nest - papered with crayoned drawings, overrun by two cats and a hamster - in which his kids feel the freedom to exercise every child's birthright: watching too much TV, making too much noise, and loving their daddy to death...