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...moral clarity that Sharansky says Amnesty International lacks? The Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo scandals have spoiled whatever claim the U.S. had to moral values. Israel and America are not champions of moral clarity. Both have been attacked, and both have retaliated by victimizing innocent people. Sharansky also complained of the moral equivalence that Amnesty's reports seem to confer on both terrorist regimes and democratic societies. There may be no moral equivalence between a terrorist attack and a retaliation, but let's at least be honest about it. Both are - and should be called - atrocities. We should...
...used as a diplomatic weapon," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan last week. The U.S. sent more than 500,000 tons of food aid in 1999, but last year it pledged just 50,000 tons, and has yet to promise any new food aid this year. (U.S. officials complain that Pyongyang still isn't allowing adequate international monitoring to ensure food goes to the needy.) Meanwhile, South Korea, too, has been stingier with the North of late. Seoul shipped 1.2 million tons of rice to Pyongyang over the last three years, plus another 300,000 tons of corn through...
...worsened, she often refused to take her pills. When Deborah insisted, Mom whined, "Deborah's being mean to me." No one in the family took it seriously except Deborah's elder sister. After years of staying in the background, she then began calling Mom every night, encouraging her to complain about Deborah. And like King Lear bouncing among his daughters in search of better treatment, Deborah's mom grew warmer toward her less favored child. "I'd always been the 'good' daughter," Deborah says. "This was her chance to be the good daughter...
Caregivers complain that their siblings don't help, don't appreciate their efforts and make matters worse by criticizing their efforts in the trenches. The faraway or less involved siblings claim that the caregiver plays the role of the martyr, taking on the burden of caregiving and spurning offers of help...
Although students complain about the disparities between the tailgate policies at Harvard and Yale, those differences may grow smaller in future years, according to O’Brien...