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...reaches us from other countries. Thank you for making that appeal. But as critical as outside help is, especially for the millions of victims, the even greater responsibility lies within Africa to teach, preach and practice safe sex. Unless the AIDS scourge is headed off at its source, namely rampant sexual promiscuity, no TIME special reports or outside help will halt the impending calamity. MICHAEL CASSIDY INTERNATIONAL TEAM LEADER AFRICAN ENTERPRISE Pietermaritzburg, South Africa...
...past five months has failed to snuff out the rebellion. An even more pressing concern may be the fate of Arafat's Palestinian Authority, which looks set to collapse. Israeli blockades have dramatically impacted on the PA's income, and its political legitimacy is already deeply corroded by rampant cronyism and corruption. But allowing the PA to collapse will create a dangerous power vacuum in the West Bank and Gaza, which many fear will ultimately be filled by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other militants. And that may present Israel with a problem even greater than its frustrations with Arafat. Mindful...
...resulted from the prevalence in American education of the notion of self-esteem. According to that therapeutic notion, the purpose of education is to make students feel capable and "empowered," and professors should hesitate to pass judgment on what students have learned. The idea of self-esteem is as rampant in higher education, and at Harvard, the supposed pinnacle of American education, as in primary and secondary education. Did not the Crimson editorial on my two-grade experiment worry that the real grade (as opposed to the transcript grade) would be "burned" into students' egos? In the universities, self-esteem...
...music is near zero and those hated music executive middlemen would be eliminated because artists could market their own work, and keep their entire profit margin. Of course, this is assuming that the Internet could provide a legitimate and secure market for music, something that in this age of rampant piracy seems difficult to imagine...
...Almost from the get-go, however, the diminutive and nearly-blind president has struggled to keep his grip on power amid rampant corruption and political infighting, economic turmoil and the increasingly violent fracturing of Indonesia that followed last year's bloodletting in East Timor. Christian-Muslim violence continues to rage in the Moluccas, while the mineral-rich provinces of Aceh and Irian Jaya press more forcefully for independence - a scenario as unpalatable to the military as it is to the nationalist Megawati...