Word: cosmopolitanism
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...organization would be strengthened if its base were not in the U.S. Moving the headquarters to a less self-serving part of the world might promote greater acceptance of the U.N. among the world's poor and dispossessed. U.N. headquarters could, for instance, be moved to a large cosmopolitan center in Australia, Asia or Africa. It might also be possible to consider limiting the time for a chosen location to a period not to exceed 20 or 25 years. Trond Foyn Oslo, Norway Man-Made Deity "Is God in Our Genes?" was interesting but hardly surprising [Nov. 29]. The answer...
...tell the paying customer how to put them into his own vintage. After seeing the film, Rolland launched an ad hominem attack claiming Nossiter "must have grown up, like so many Americans, surrounded by Coca-Cola, hamburgers and The Muppet Show." That weirdly parochial insult only highlights Nossiter's cosmopolitan approach. He finds nuance everywhere, including in his interview with Robert Parker, the redoubtable American wine critic who can make or break a vintage in the newsletter he produces from his Maryland home office, with his flatulent bulldog George and his basset hound Hoover in attendance. Parker says...
...greatest artists, from Michelangelo to Joyce, God hasn’t fared too well on stereos in recent decades. Like protest or political anthems, “praise” songs are relegated to the farthest possible margins of coolness, not just because of their pedantic (and un-cosmopolitan) message, but because their preaching and passion doesn’t make for very good music. In the case of the ever-demonized field of Christian rock, top-40-hood isn’t totally out of the question—that is, until listeners realize what over-the-top trash...
...trouble is that secular political alliances probably won't bring out the vote in much of the Sunni triangle, where sectarian sensibilities run deep, and many Sunnis say they fear being marginalized by Shi'ite religious parties that are set to dominate the new government. Even in cosmopolitan Baghdad, many Sunnis feel they need a party that represents them exclusively. Ali Hameed, a neuropsychiatrist and worshipper at the Omar alMukhtar, describes himself as secular-minded but laments the lack of a strong Sunni party. "I would not be troubled if a Shi'ite party came to power in the elections...
...that is likely, then why all the fuss in Rome last week? The Roman performance was still worthwhile. It was the closest that Europe ever has come to a democratic vision of itself—cosmopolitan, secular, with institutions to encourage both free trade and a redistribution of resources. As Pope Innocent X stared on, he probably did not understand what was taking place. The dream of Europe that the men in front of him were attempting to stage was not his dream, nor that of those other power-hungry leaders who once aimed to unite the continent from Paris...