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...explain their silence, Faculty members cite their unwillingness to discuss confidential academic matters in public. In other words, they have all the information to convince us, but for reasons of university security they can’t reveal any of it. Isn’t that what the Bush administration is saying about its illegal wiretapping...
...they are called upon to defend late-term abortions. Except in cases where the mother?s safety is at risk, late-term abortions have always been controversial because at some point they sidle up too close to infanticide for comfort. Now the South Dakota lawmakers find themselves having to explain why they rejected what have become customary ?special circumstances? like exceptions in the case of rape or incest, that are favored even by the ?pro-life President? in the White House...
...poverty remains all too evident, the country still has only 3,000 km of freeway, and finding enough water to drink is an annual battle for tens of millions. (Oh, and there are no real-life plans for an Indian lunar landing.) There's a handy Hindu concept to explain these paradoxes. Maya means wonder, as in Mayanagri (city of dreams), the Hindi nickname for Bombay. It also denotes a willful fantasy - of the kind, for example, that would have a U.S. President last week expressing his "joy" at seeing the new India while in Delhi, a city only half...
Your book includes many lists, including people you hate. Explain...
...when learning of studies that unequivocally reveal its persistence. It seems that the tendency to believe in a fair world is a powerful one, with the ability to perceive discrimination coming only slowly after a person has experienced enough prejudice to cause harm or impede success. This may help explain why so many highly successful people, like Summers, are not sensitive to the tremendous obstacle that prejudice still poses for women. So what lessons have we learned in the aftermath of Summers’ comments? First, speech that categorizes people based on race, religion, or gender as innately inferior?...