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That report is just one more example of Soviet Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness, in the media. Over the past year the state-run press has been exploring the problems of Soviet society with unprecedented candor, discussing such once forbidden topics as drug abuse, prostitution and urban blight. In addition, newspapers and TV have covered the kinds of national catastrophes?an earthquake, an attempted airplane hijacking and the sinking of a Soviet submarine?that were once hushed...
...regulated, including romance. It took almost a year before communist officials granted Giegie and her betrothed, a 25-year-old rebel called Dods, permission to date. Guided by a document called "On the Proletarian Relationship of the Sexes," they must court for another year before marriage. Premarital sex is forbidden...
...practice Islam as much as back home," he says. "I just go to Friday prayers. I try to enforce the laws that I think are very important, like praying five times and not drinking alcohol. There are, like, nine different things dealing with alcohol that are forbidden, and for me, I don't want to do anything with it. This is how we were in Somalia." As a result, he says, he has bypassed three fares in five years...
...insisting that all my friends and family read Poniewozik's article. My grandparents were from Mexico. My parents were born in the U.S. and grew up in a mainly Mexican community. They were raised to be bilingual and bicultural and graduated high school at a time when they were forbidden to speak Spanish there. My dad is a Korean War veteran. My brothers and I attended college. I married a Mexican farmworker with a green card. ˇDios mio! I remember a time when we rarely saw a brown face in the media. Immigrants remain the hardworking, grateful backbone...
...Neuhaus made the most important point of all when he said, "Mosques proliferate throughout cities in the West, while any expression of non-Islamic religion is strictly forbidden in many Muslim countries." No matter what moral failures we find in the "Christianized" West, people have the freedom to exercise their faith and religion. For people to be deprived of that freedom in Muslim countries is blatantly immoral. James E. Ruark Kentwood, Michigan...