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...otherworldly, and one kind of society, which is rigidly hierarchical and patriarchal. Sen points out that if Indians have historically been the world's most religious people, they have also been, paradoxically, its most skeptical. Many of India's most influential thinkers, like the Buddha, were agnostics?or outright atheists. "Indeed, Sanskrit not only has a bigger body of religious literature than exists in any other classical language, it also has a larger volume of agnostic or atheistic writings than in any other classical language," says Sen. Just as it has allowed space for skepticism within a mainly theistic tradition...
...much weight to historical anomalies and aberrations to make his case. He loves to cite the Mughal Emperor Akbar as an illustration of how open-minded and inquisitive Indian monarchs could be. Yet Akbar was a one-off?none of his successors was as ecumenical, and a few were outright bigots. The might of orthodoxy and narrow-mindedness in Indian history is greater than Sen allows it to be, while acquired Western political traditions probably play a greater part in creating contemporary Indian society's liberal values than Sen believes. Also doubtful is his insistence that the values of debate...
...lavender Porsche for his young floozy. The wife could ask her husband to redraft their trusts so that a bank or one of their children would have to sign off on withdrawals of principal. If he refused, she could hire her own lawyer, revoke her trust and leave everything outright to her kids. In marriages like yours, estate lawyers say, such arrangements are rarely necessary. They are cumbersome, cost more and can incite strife in a grieving family. Most of all, in a case like yours, it would make trouble where there is none in order to fix something that...
...death penalty isn't in any danger of being outlawed outright, but if the court's recent record is any indication, executions may well continue to be more severely restricted, at least until another member of the moderate-to-liberal wing departs the bench. In just the past three years, the court has ruled out capital punishment for the mentally retarded and juveniles while overturning a few death sentences because of incompetent legal counsel or racial bias in jury selection. Later this year, the court is scheduled to hear a much anticipated case concerning whether a Tennessee man on death...
...government subsidizing the deal--CNOOC's parent company, wholly owned by the state, will give it an $8.5 billion, 30-year loan at just 3.5% interest--cries of predatory financing are inevitable. So too are complaints (accurate enough) that there is little chance a Western oil major could buy outright one of China's biggest energy companies if it wanted to. A level playing field China is not, and with trade tensions between Washington and Beijing strained already, the Bush Administration promises to scrutinize any proposed deal carefully...