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...What would also help to defuse the who-needs-whom debate would be a male movement - masculism? - in which all men of non-Taliban persuasion would strive to emulate that half of the race which is typically gentler, kinder, less overbearing. Non-firebreathing feminists would surely support such a campaign, even though nervous good ol' boys among men have already bent New Sensitive Man into a put-down...
...longer. Rather than succumbing to the "kinder, gentler" image painted by his admen - or, for that matter, to the Bush administration's entreaties to the Arab world to "judge him by his actions rather than by his record" - the Israeli newspaper Haaretz simply went and asked the Israeli prime minister where he wants to take the country. And in a wide-ranging interview published over the weekend, Sharon set out a rather grim vision of an embattled Israel surviving in a state of cold war with its Arab neighbors for the next decade and beyond...
This shift reflects a growing public yearning for gentler, less invasive forms of healing. But unconventional potions and practices afford rich opportunities for quackery. Health-food magazines and websites are filled with ads touting miracle cures that serve only to separate the sick from their money...
Initially, Barral's gentler, hands-on approach met with skepticism. But some in the medical community are starting to recognize its benefits. Visceral manipulation has become part of the standard curriculum at all European osteopathic schools, while seminars in the U.S., Japan and Russia are drawing large crowds. In Grenoble, where osteopaths treat a surprising 25% of the city's population, nearly one-third of Barral's patients have been referred by mainstream doctors. "We often get called in when regular medicine can't do anything," he says. "That's where being an organ mechanic is a beautiful thing. There...
Congress' baby-face was a bit gentler in his remarks about the Senate's oldest member, Strom Thurmond...