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That view may prove overly pessimistic. Yet it was only too obvious last week that the war's psychic scars remain tender after four decades. Statesmen who try to hasten the healing, for the most laudable of reasons, must do so cautiously and with respect for the ghosts of the past. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington and William McWhirter/Bonn, with other bureaus
Whether that temporary epiphany can hasten true equality between the sexes remains to be seen. Like most U.N. ideals, the warm feelings of sisterly unity that infused Nairobi may be difficult to translate into concrete action in the rough-and-tumble forum of international politics. But many women nevertheless voiced their determination to try. Said Filipino Irene Santiago, of the Asian Women's Research and Action Network: "We are preparing for the long haul." --By Susan Tifft. Reported by Jane O'Reilly and Maryanne Vollers/Nairobi WOMEN WORLDWIDE...
...relieving suffering. Not Dead Yet has uncovered the same perverse sense of duty in members of the Hemlock Society, now called End-of-Life Choices. (In 1997, the executive director of the Hemlock Society suggested that judicial review be used regularly “when it is necessary to hasten the death of an individual whether it be a demented parent, a suffering, severely disabled spouse or a child.” This illustrates that the “right to die” movement favors the imposition of death sentences on disabled people by means of the judicial branch...
...needs to jettison some of its “anti-elitism” in favor of a legitimate peer review system, one which displays a genuine respect for authority. If, for example, there’s a dispute over the evolutionary development of women, shouldn’t we hasten to give more credit to a noted biologist than to an economist? And at any rate, shouldn’t either researcher be considered more worthy of trust than a 13 year-old doing a science fair project...
...irony is that while Abbas will almost certainly be more democratic than Arafat, that won't necessarily hasten the peace process. In fact, it could even do the opposite: Arafat had used his longstanding executive authority as unchallenged head of a national liberation movement to force through compromises in the Oslo agreement that would not likely have been accepted by his electorate, and later to order crackdowns on Hamas when their actions jeopardized his own plans...