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...really free speech, but mutual respect. Civil discourse, when it actually happens, is the bedrock of our society. Once religious groups start arguing based on reason instead of justifying their actions with the pretext of “faith,” they’ll earn credibility and I’ll force myself to listen. But until then, they’ll remain filed away under those three little words—crazy religious zealots. Giselle Barcia ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is an English and American literature and language concentrator in Mather House. Giselle...
...advertisers, who have found a way to tap into a disproportionately affluent slice of the market. Consider: Britain's gays - accounting for around 6% of the population, or about 3.6 million - pocket an estimated $130 billion annually, according to a recent survey. Openly gay men in full-time jobs earn $18,000 a year more than the male national average; among lesbians, the premium is $12,000. (It's a similar story in France, too.) Hence, for advertisers - whether dreaming up mainstream publicity fit for a gay audience, or appealing directly via gay media - it's cool to think pink...
...Koizumi maximized his abilities as an agent of transformation, he fell short of fulfilling his original policy pledges [July 3]. Without a solid ideological foundation, he lacked a grand design to lead Japan. I hope that his successor will be more of a builder than a reformer and will earn Japan respect not only from the U.S. but also from our neighboring countries, such as China and Korea. Tadashi Kawabe Fukuoka, Japan...
...time-released thrills every 30 seconds or so - you know, hooks - she's thrown in about 20 of them. Some are immediately recongnizable, like "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)", the Abba meringue in the middle of it all, but others are so weird and pulsing that they earn the word exotic. So for a pop listener, the thing you know draws you into the thing you don't know, and at the end you feel a little cooler just for having listened to the song. Making people feel cool - allowing your style to rub off on them...
...population. But in a nation of more than a billion, they are still a disadvantaged minority, and often the target of discrimination. Government surveys show that Muslims live shorter, poorer and unhealthier lives than Hindus and are often excluded from the better jobs. In urban areas, 40% of Muslims earn less than $6 a month, versus 22% of Hindus, and 30% of Muslims are illiterate, versus 19% of Hindus. Muslims make up 13% of the population, yet only 3% of government employees are Muslim. Of course, there are plenty of economic success stories among Muslims. Azim Premji, founder...