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...Does a teenager convicted of spraying cars with easily removable paint deserve half a dozen powerful strokes on the buttocks with a sopping-wet bamboo staff? At what point does swift, sure punishment become torture? By what moral authority can America, with its high rates of lawlessness and license, preach to a safe society about human rights? Isn't the shipshape and affluent little city-state molded by Lee Kuan Yew a model of civic virtues...
...short, the Syracuse program is very nearly a perfect solution to the primary care crisis. It doesn't mandate or preach primary care to the unwilling, but instead actively encourages it by providing an opportunity to be exposed to its practice...
...Both men are Ivy Leaguers and Pulitzer prizewinners (Frankel for covering Richard Nixon's trip to China, Lelyveld for a book about South Africa) who have spent their adult life at the Times. Both reflect a newsroom esprit de corps that approaches religious fervor. Both are political liberals who preach the importance of balance and fairness. And both lament that economic pressures led to staff buyouts over the past couple of years but say the Times still has the resources it needs...
...main desire is not to just preach to the converted," said Decker. "We want to be educational as well. [The program] is non-traditional in that sense...
...rare, a bill to ban the procedure was introduced in the New York State legislature in early March. It mirrors efforts on the national level by Colorado Representative Pat Schroeder to outlaw such mutilation. Says she: "It's terribly important to do so if we're going to preach on this issue in the international community." Yet even as American feminists inveigh against the practice, African professional women in the U.S. decry these protests as arrogant and misguided...