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...children in her 20s and a second batch in her 40s. "Family will be no less important to people than it ever was," she concludes. Johannes Huinink, a family researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany, agrees. "The kind of authentic trusting relationships we have in families don't exist elsewhere in society," he says. "It doesn't really matter how families are structured. The main and important condition is that the social relationship is filled with life." And watching the zest with which childless couples Rosati and Markovic and the McIntyres run full tilt at life; observing the delight...
...Guangcheng [Sept. 4]. Disgust threatened to turn to despair. What hope is there for individuals like Chen, outgunned and outnumbered? But then I recalled the words that novelist Lu Xun wrote 85 years ago at the end of his short story My Old Home: "Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made." A pebble cast in the water may seem insignificant, but it creates ripples...
...persons group from the Pacific Islands Forum. Yes, RAMSI is staffed by people from 14 nations in the South Pacific?as Batley, an Australian diplomat, stresses tirelessly. But there's no doubt that the mission is an Australian initiative. Without Canberra's dollars, troops and expertise, RAMSI would not exist. Having committed so much, Australia cannot pull out. It must stay until the work is done. Nor did it underestimate the task; in fact, six months before the July 2003 deployment, Downer saw intervention as "folly in the extreme." "The fundamental problem," he wrote in the Australian, "is that foreigners...
...borrowed money from our relatives for food," she says. "But now they have no money. So I sold my wedding jewelry and the TV. Now, we're selling the furniture. Next, our clothes." For Abed and a million other Palestinians, the question of whether or not they should co-exist with Israel has been reduced to something far more elemental: finding a shekel or two so they can feed their family a plate of beans. -With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem
...peer-advising program, of which I am fortunate to be a part. Last year, instead of announcing that the popular, 25-year-old Prefect Program would henceforth be better funded and better trained than ever before, the College simply said that the program would no longer exist, and would instead be “morphed into something else.”Anywhere else on the face of the earth, such a statement probably would have prompted a follow-up question about what exactly the program’s replacement might be. At Harvard, however, it was enough to provoke...