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Beijing's new willingness to confront AIDS--China's HIV caseload, now about 1 million, is swelling as much as 30% a year--has given Zhou the chance to broach taboo issues like human rights and equality under the law. If he can champion the rights of AIDS patients, he reasons, then someday he may be able to do the same for gay men--or anyone else. Zhou dreams of representing a gay man in an antidiscrimination lawsuit, but so far, no plaintiffs are willing to brave the exposure. "Law and policy always involve compromise," he says, "and sometimes being...
...Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, from the neo-conservative camp, and former Minister of Science and reformist candidate Mostafa Moin. "He's the only candidate capable of preventing extreme factionalism in Iran," says Nasser Hadian, a political science professor at Tehran University. "But he's also the only one who can broach relations with America," because only he has enough political power internally. In his two consecutive terms as Iranian President, from 1989 to 1997, Rafsanjani negotiated the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon and brokered a one-billion-dollar oil deal, which later derailed, with U.S. firm Conoco. If he does...
...know the country as well as they assume. Despite its freewheeling reputation, Thailand surpasses even Japan in its adherence to stifling social hierarchies?note the national obsession with uniforms. It is also, considering Bangkok's sexual notoriety, a surprisingly prudish place. Soap operas are so straitlaced that they cannot broach the topic of "minor wives," as mistresses are euphemistically known. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Culture (a Thaksin-era invention) pesters young women who wear skimpy clothes during the annual Songkran water-splashing festival, even though "traditional" Thai women wore even less. This public puritanism explains the enduring popularity...
...Hong Kong has suddenly become a highly contentious place. Twice in the past two years, 500,000 residents poured into the streets to demand greater political freedoms, such as the right to directly elect its next leader and all its legislators, an issue Tung didn't broach in his address. ("Pragmatic Hong Kong has moved on to other things," says Lau Siu-kai, Tung's chief strategist and author of last week's speech. "That's nuts," retorts Christine Loh, CEO of Civic Exchange, a progressive local think tank. "It just shows how out of touch they are.") Now, activist...
...rating a problem? I would have rated it PG. The film does deal with serious issues. It's similar to Mel Gibson's dilemma with The Passion [of the Christ]. There's no way to glamorize an execution on a Cross. If you're going to broach a subject like child abuse, which is in this film, you can't turn that into Kool-Aid and Oreo cookies...