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...City, hundreds of Christian yoga classes are in session. A national association of Christian yoga teachers was started in July, and a slew of books and videos are about to hit the market. But the very phrase stiffens yoga purists and some Christians--including a rather influential Catholic--who insist yoga cannot be separated from its Hindu roots...
Among Sen's targets are the Hindu fundamentalists, who permit no scope for diversity in their interpretation of India's history; so are those who insist that tolerance and dissent are uniquely Western concepts. Not so, he counters: they are as Indian as yoga and hot curry. He also takes a swipe at the "Asian values" theory, which was popular in the 1990s and emphasized a supposed dichotomy between "Western" values of individuality and democracy and "Asian" values of conformity, discipline and reverence for tradition. The dichotomy is fake. One of the basic requirements of a democratic political culture...
Whenever the administration's twin tracks in Iraq get snarled, American support for the war declines. According to an Associated Press--Ipsos poll, public approval of George W. Bush's handling of the war fell to 38% last week, an all-time low. White House officials insist the President will not be scared out of Iraq by the insurgents, much less by falling polls. "We will stay the course," Bush declared last week from his Texas ranch as he began a month's vacation. "We will complete the job in Iraq." Still, Administration officials hit the phones all week long...
...view a parliamentary system as one way of doing that. You say the switch should come by July 2006. do you insist on that timing? I'm saying we have 10 months, maybe 12 or 15?that's what the country can probably stand. Look at our peso, our credit ratings, look at the poor below. [He points from his 26th floor window to the streets and slums of Makati.] How urgent...
...Iran is in talks with three European countries over the future of its nuclear energy program. Tehran has signaled its intent to resume such uranium-enrichment activities as are permitted under the Non Proliferation Treaty, but the Europeans insist that it forego even those. How is Iran likely to proceed on this front...