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...which Christianity impacts Africa. Mariko and Maritha are devout Christians whose problem is not one of violence. In fact, they have been happy partners for so many years that their fellow townsmen see them as twins. Society is shocked when they start coming before congregation every week to confess their secret lusts. Questions abound, both in the minds of the congregation and in the mind of the reader. Have Mariko and Maritha tended to their souls and neglected the needs of their bodies? Does a healthy sexual relationship clash with religious piety? It is only when they visit the traditional...
...confess that I've never quite understood why newspapers endorse presidential candidates. Sure, I know the history and the tradition, the fact that newspapers in the 18th and 19th centuries were often affiliated with political parties, but why do they do it now? Why do it at a time when the credibility and viability of the press are at all-time lows? More important, why do it at a time when readers, especially young readers, question the objectivity of newspapers in particular and the media in general...
...about the security forces' alleged role in extra-judicial killings, torture and arbitrary arrests, was picked up by the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) in May, 2007. According to the Human Rights Watch report, he was kept in a detention center, beaten, threatened with execution and "forced to confess to - and implicate friends and colleagues in - anti-state and anti-military activity, and to smuggling of sensitive national security information to foreign organizations." After 22 hours and much pressure from foreign embassies in Bangladesh, authorities released Khalil. After a month in hiding he fled to Sweden, which granted...
...diagnosed me, using little lights to peer into my ears and nose because her eyes just weren’t strong enough? Cyborg. The woman who booked my appointment, using a telephone to talk to me instead of just yelling across campus to try to reach me? Cyborg. I confess that I felt some Asimov-flavored robot anxiety (something Lamp doesn’t treat) when I started to wonder where machine ends and the person begins...
Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy—or even the integrity—of the “classic” exam period editorial, “Beating the System,” you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald Carswell ’50” of being rather one of Us—the Bad Guys—than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell’s advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes...