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...Archibald as the proverbial perfect match—he is a 2003 Harvard Business School graduate, a former basketball player for Brigham Young University, and the director of marketing for a graphic design company. And as an unmarried 31-year-old member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints—whose adherents often marry in their early-to-mid twenties—he is something of an oddity...
...country that prides itself on social harmony, homogeneity and an equitable distribution of wealth, is bifurcating along geographic and social lines into camps of permanent winners and perpetual losers?the former a highly educated and trained core of ?lite employees and entrepreneurs working for internationally competitive companies, the latter an increasingly marginalized yet growing sector of society comprising primarily elderly rural poor and despairing urban youths like Ijiri. "In the past, people believed that the whole nation was getting wealthier, and the rich were simply the people who got there quicker," says Toshiki Satou, a sociologist at the University...
...little effective legislation protecting ancient monuments, and while archaeological sites are granted nominal guardianship by the ASI, there is no system of architectural listing, and India's rich heritage of late Mughal and colonial domestic architecture is mostly unprotected by law. In the competition between development and heritage, the latter inevitably gives...
...Freedom and Fear In TIME's interview with former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky [June 6], he criticized Amnesty International for lacking "moral clarity" and not differentiating between human-rights abuses committed by dictatorial "fear societies" and those carried out by democratic "free societies." Sharansky implied that the latter are more tolerable, but the distinction is meaningless to the victims. When asked about Israel's abuses of Palestinians' human rights, Sharansky accused Amnesty International of ignoring violations by terrorist organizations. Well, two wrongs don't make a right. Raymond Totah Fallbrook, California...
...Gestapo expelled him and his parents in 1938. While he and his mother angled for an exit visa to the U.S., his father was arrested by the Soviets as a German spy and offered the choice of Soviet citizenship or 15 years' hard labor in Siberia. He chose the latter and could not join his family, by then settled in Manhattan, until the late 1940s. Max's own brood comprises his wife of 30 years, Tobia, and three children...