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...gooders brought about the relaxation or removal of limits on almost every aspect of young people's lives. This was invariably justified on the basis that traditional rules suppressed youngsters' natural development or infringed their human rights. Parents who wish to set boundaries on their children's behavior should insist that their parliamentarians, police and judiciary back them up. Thomas Sweeney, Ivanhoe, Victoria...
...Thailand's drug dealers, a fight that echoes a previous campaign by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the man widely considered to be Samak's political overlord. Samak has even vowed to imprison illegal immigrants who are members of a Burmese minority group on a deserted island if they insist on fleeing to Thailand because of alleged human-rights abuses back home. But this week, Samak found a new enemy: Thai fortuneteller Varin Buaviratlert, who predicted last Friday that the current government would crumble before the end of the year...
...recent violence in Basra shows how tenuous what passes for peace in Iraq really is. And William Odom, a retired three-star Army general, has spelled out just how shaky that alliance with the Sunnis is. "Our new Sunni friends insist on being paid for their loyalty," Odom told the Senate Foreign Relations committee last Wednesday. He cited one estimate that the U.S. military is paying a local strongman $250,000 a day to keep the peace in a 36-square mile swath of the country. "Remember, we do not own these people, we rent them - and they can break...
...divided self. While he was indeed the enlightened leader who wanted to develop the country, improve the plight of the poor and secure freedom by resisting colonial power, the once-admirable leader is also the person doing the terrible things that can't be mentioned? He can insist that he never sacrifices his principles because the way he sees it, he did not set out to murder, and the torture people suffered was of their own doing. While he may not be mad in a clinical sense, his is a mad way of being in the world...
...battleground where the world as we know it will end. At the souvenir shop, they flock to buy maps of where Jesus walked, and tiny vials of water from the Jordan River. The river may now be mostly a murky rivulet, but thousands of Evangelical Christians insist on being re-baptized in its waters...