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The World Bank's Serageldin draws a fascinating graph. The vertical y line represents bonding -- quite literally the ties that bind a society together. The horizontal x axis represents options and opportunities -- freedom. Each society and each individual must make a trade-off, represented by an oblique line that angles...
The town's adversities may actually have strengthened the student bonds. The farm economic crisis of the 1920s, followed by the Great Depression in the 1930s, pushed the people inward. World War II froze town development. Even after the war, Greenfield was ignored by superhighways and shopping malls. The kids...
Male friendship, to judge from television commercials, is both natural and automatic -- just get a bunch of guys together, down a six-pack and cement lifelong bonds by being there when the Swedish Bikini Team arrives. Reality, of course, is a bit more complicated. Think of the extremes modern men...
Q. But wasn't it breaking many bonds of trust to become involved with your lover's daughter?
The courts may not call it incest or child abuse, but the relationship is surely an abuse of power. "Does anyone really see Soon-Yi as a consenting equal?" asks West. "Would she feel free to say no to the great Woody Allen? Is she intellectually mature enough?" One reason...