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What we are witnessing is in fact a clash between two earnest and articulated theological impulses. Traditionalists and innovators disagree about sex because they disagree about the universe, and about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Church Pews And Bedrooms | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

...station showed a videotape of the tourists, and the commentator said, 'Look at this corruption, this sinful behavior.' But the tourists weren't dancing or singing. They just came to look." The city's several thousand Syrian troops tolerate Hizballah's activities but would probably intervene should the culture clash escalate. "The Syrians could make this place free," says a Baalbek merchant. "But this is Syria's gift to Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep In Kidnapper Country | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

Could the West's condemnation of B.C.C.I. as a criminal bank be attributed at least in part to a profound clash of cultures? That is precisely the case, say experts familiar with banking in the Middle East and Asia. They insist that many B.C.C.I. practices that the U.S. and the rest of the developed world call reprehensible are merely traditional operating procedure in the eyes of Muslims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Standard Procedure? | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

...book Rights Talk, Mary Ann Glendon of Harvard Law School argues that the nation's legal language on rights is highly developed, but the language of responsibility is meager: "A tendency to frame nearly every social controversy in terms of a clash of rights (a woman's right to her own body vs. a fetus's right to life) impedes compromise, mutual understanding, and the discovery of common ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nation of Finger Pointers | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

...biggest minority groups clash over politics and jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

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