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...more suspicious than they are already? The biggest reason to go open kimono is that the present system does what journalism should never do: it perpetuates a lie. Modern political journalism is based on the bogus concept of neutrality (that people can be steeped in campaigns yet not care who wins) and the legitimate ideal of fairness (that people can place intellectual integrity and rigor over their rooting interests). Voting and disclosing would expose the sham of neutrality-which few believe anyway-and compel opinion and news writers alike to prove, story by story, that fairness is possible anyway. Partisans...
...understand the impulse of the Vatican to stress a broader range of sins for the modern age. Gianfranco Girotti, the No. 2 Catholic official in charge of confessions and penitence, told the Vatican's newspaper, "You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming or coveting your neighbor's wife" but also by polluting, cloning, taking drugs, promoting social injustice or becoming obscenely rich. Where the standard sins are individual failings, in a global culture sin is social. "Attention to sin is a more urgent task today," Girotti said, "precisely because its consequences are more abundant and more destructive...
...realm of biotechnology was especially dangerous, which reflects church teaching that destroying an embryo equates with murder. But the original mortal sins had as much to do with attitudes as with acts. Greed might lead to theft, lust to adultery, but the sin began in the heart. Yet modern research does not seem wicked to many suffering patients or the doctors who hope to cure them; the church's sin is their salvation. Likewise the accumulation of excessive wealth: leave aside the historical irony of this charge issuing from the Vatican. What do we make of Bill Gates, the Great...
Reviled and admired, envied and feared, Babylon - the remains of which lie some 50 miles (80 km) south of modern-day Baghdad - has for centuries been shrouded in myth. Despite its description by Greek historians as a center of political power, the fables tend to overshadow any sense of what the city was actually like. "Everyone knows the name and the legends of Babylon," says Francis Joannès, a professor of ancient history and Mesopotamia at the Sorbonne. "But what people don't necessarily know is its reality...
There were moments when the audience held its breath, laughed and sighed with delight—and rightfully so. “Next Generation,” the Boston Ballet’s showcase of young choreographers that ran this past weekend, was truly a marvel. Combining modern and classical elements fluidly, it broke the boundaries of contemporary ballet. Sissones and demi grands were deconstructed, built again, and made...