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...Reform I'm not sure Germany's election stalemate proved that the political system is in crisis [Oct. 3]. Did it mean the German people deeply oppose political reform? I don't think so. They are divided, however, about the pace and degree of change. Those who want to proceed slowly were comforted by Gerhard Schröder's campaign speeches and put off by Angela Merkel's. That's why Merkel did not appeal as much to voters who wanted to hear comfortable words. Philippe Dahbi Rockenhausen, Germany Gays Need Not Apply You reported that pope Benedict...
...serve a purpose: to moralize, to glorify the empire or even to sell soap. Some propagandize for or against slavery. François-Auguste Biard's The Slave Trade (1835) is a grand narrative of cruelty. On the right people arrive bound; they're examined and haggled over; they proceed across the canvas to be flogged onboard the boat that will carry them to the slave ship offshore. Eyre Crowe's Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond Virginia (1861), is less overt in its condemnation of the trade. Composed from a sketch of a real slave market, it shows neatly dressed...
...course, one key difference between the latest attacks and those of three years ago is the scale of the carnage: 20 confirmed deaths so far (excluding the bombers), not 202. But it's not just these lower numbers that have convinced visitors like Trish Davies to proceed with trips to Bali. Davies, who is visiting from Australia, expresses a mixture of defiance and resignation that reflects how inured many of us have become to the notion that terrorists can strike anytime, anywhere. Standing in front of the blasted remnants of the Raja restaurant in Kuta, the 39-year-old homemaker...
...don’t think, even at a wealthy institution like ours—a very wealthy institution—can you just proceed as if resources are not limited...
...school of the hard knocks, call it what you will. But whether students, employees, or both at once, theirs is a predicament that seldom appears to matter to those enrolled in the more popular classes here—those whose toilet bowls they clean and whose collared shirts they proceed to borrow on weekends...