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Of course, it's easy for me to be sanctimonious: I'm a pop-culture columnist, not a campaign reporter. The logistics of disclosing votes would be a problem; no one wants to slog through countless articles giving the writers' electoral history back to college. But the online magazine Slate...
The strategy, however, has backfired. Chen's actions irked Beijing, and relations between the two have been more or less frozen for eight years. In early March, Chinese President Hu Jintao called Taiwan's independence efforts "the biggest threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait." Chen also annoyed...
But not anymore. "We are losing the notion of sin," Pope Benedict XVI warns, as attendance at confession plummets. The culture celebrates what once it sanctioned: parents encourage pride as essential to self-esteem; a group of self-rising French chefs has petitioned the Vatican that being a gourmand is...
If permanent collections dwindle as nations reclaim objects, he argued, these museums will no longer be able to display the same gamut of different cultural artifacts side by side, losing a vital resource for prolonged educational comparison.
The smoking-ban announcement coincided with the opening of a new exhibit examining the reprehensible marketing tactics tobacco companies used in the 1920s to 1950s. Advertisements featured everything from smiling doctors enjoying a “healthy” smoke to pseudo-scientific medical facts meant to allay rising health...