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...hard to complain about a bipartisan consensus in favor of goodness. Certainly its premises are too grave to dismiss. Rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock birth are indeed appalling, as are the related rates of child abuse and neglect. Songs celebrating rape and murder are not the hallmark of a healthy culture. Still, it's fair to ask whether something as ideologically jumbled as the new politics of virtue can ultimately prove coherent. Can liberals and conservatives so easily embrace the same ideas without surrendering bedrock beliefs? Or, in fact, might a real moral recovery entail some bitter medicine...
...inevitably known as Old Sparky). Set in the deep, sleepy and racist South of 1932, the novel asks the question, What if a hulking but gentle and close-to-mute black man with a gift for Christlike healing were sentenced to die for the brutal kidnapping and murder-rape of two little white girls--crimes he may or may not have committed? There are many familiar King elements: gore ( in this regard a botched electrocution is the novel's tour de force), ambiguous supernatural powers, cruelty and revenge. Newcomers to King may be surprised to discover his fascination with bodily...
TOKYO: Tensions over U.S. military bases in Okinawa are rising once again as the one-year anniversary of the rape of a Japanese schoolgirl by three U.S. servicemen nears. About 3,000 landowners are refusing to renew their leases with the U.S. military, leading to a court battle between the ruling government and Okinawa's Governor Masahide Ota. On Monday, Japan's Supreme Court, as expected, upheld the government policy of forcing landowners to lease land to the U.S. military. Outside the court, dozens of anti-base demonstrators protested the ruling, while others from the right wing -->