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...Apart from wasting a precious commodity (water), it would appear he's never heard of the off switch. Margaret Callow Courbevoie, France Above the Law? While I believe that presidential wiretapping for political reasons is wrong, the National Security Agency (NSA) can read my e-mail and listen to my phone conversations all day long if it will help them find the bad guys. [Jan. 23] I don't think the NSA, the CIA or any other government agency will have time to weed through our everyday mail. They know whom to be suspicious of. I am sure they...
...educate, and to heal. Obviously, the lacrosse players, and others as well, have a long way to go. When we say and do nothing, we show survivors—our friends, our family, and our loved ones—that we are not ready to be supportive and listen, and we show perpetrators that we will not challenge their behavior. The skill and knowledge to change a culture that tacitly condones sexual violence are things we can all participate in learning. It is not intuitive, and it is not straightforward. But it is vitally important.The alleged rape at Duke should...
...Yekaterinburg is Russia's fifth largest city, about the size of Marseilles and Lyons combined. Assuming the French students have an open mind, they should be astonished, unsettled and perhaps a little ashamed of what they find there. The under-25s in Yekaterinburg dress much the same way and listen to some of the same music as those in Lyons and Marseilles, but they live in a world that couldn't be more different. In today's Russia, nothing is easy but everything is possible; in France, by contrast, everything is easy but nothing is possible. There is zero...
...idol, Hodgman, 34, has forged a career as an urbane literary figure and satirist of the urbanely literate. A Yale grad and former book agent, he has had a short story (edited by Plimpton) published in the Paris Review and writes nonfiction for the New York Times Magazine. But listen to the commentaries he gives as a resident expert on The Daily Show and you'll discover that one of the deadliest potential consequences of global warming is an unfrozen-caveman crime wave. Crack the spine of his faux atlas, The Areas of My Expertise, and you'll learn...
...have an Ipod and a Myspace account, I chat online, and I can play online games for two hours without realizing it. But my mother and I have a very good relationship because, when she comes to talk to me, I disconnect myself and listen. When she comes home, I leave my room to hug her and say hello. And I am grateful that my mom sets rules and curfews and disciplines me the way she does. Parents may hate it when they have to discipline their children, but rules really do help in the long run. Parents need...