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...help, but not as a partner in crime. We need a critical friend with the guts to look her erstwhile son in the eye and tell him to get back in line. The Blair government’s dote-and-nod approach toward America only encourages our disdain for dissenting views. But if Britain puts forward an alternative vision with enough conviction and repetition, then in time the American people will listen...
Joel Stein's commentary on why Americans don't care about the World Cup exemplifies the U.S.'s disdain for other cultures [ESSAY, June 17]. Stein should feel sorry for the millions of Americans who have no notion of geography and cannot come to terms with cultures other than their own, which they always deem superior. That lack of interest breeds anger elsewhere around the globe. Sadly, it seems that the only way some in the U.S. can get acquainted with other countries is through war. NICOLAS BAYCHELIER Chungli, Taiwan...
...cultural tastes - Messier marketed himself as a new brand of global CEO. His appetite for media attention, meanwhile, offered a refreshing change from France's older generation of clubby, secretive business chieftains. But Messier ignored the risk of over-exposure, and his hamming soon generated jealousy, resentment and disdain in France. His Americanophilia also rankled, especially after he moved to a $17.5 million Park Avenue apartment and poked a U.S. flag pin in his lapel. In December, when Messier announced yet another U.S. acquisition and pronounced "the French cultural exception" dead, his country's media and political establishment turned against...
...their eyes, Shoei Asai, the 70-year-old leader of a religious sect called Nichiren Kenshokai, is a healer and a prophet who envisions a looming calamity for Japan that he alone can avert. "Asai sensei understands" says Kazuhito Suzuki, a disillusioned, young construction worker who professes nothing but disdain for Japan's establishment and despair for the future. "He has the answers...
...that he cut deals to secure his personal freedom while the circumstances of ordinary West Bank Palestinians continued to deteriorate in the face of a tightening Israeli blockade. And the militants of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and even the grassroots of Arafat's own Fatah organization have made clear their disdain for their leadership's calls for restraint in order to revive a peace process. Palestinian security structures, meanwhile, are the subject of intensive reform and resuscitation efforts led by the U.S., while Israeli troops continue to maintain effective security control over the formerly off-limits PA-run towns...