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...faith through all this, I find myself asking: Why? Why can these men not get the enormity of what has happened? The best I can come up with is that they are well-intentioned men who somehow cannot see that what they have enabled is systematic child rape. They resist deep change by claiming that celibacy isn't the issue. But the hierarchy's cover-up of this evil surely has something to do with celibacy. Today's church leaders see sex primarily as an act, fraught with moral danger, not as a relationship, imbued with moral good...
...more concern than these outbursts was Ahmed's sympathy for the Taliban. When the President sent him to Kandahar six days after Sept. 11 to persuade Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar to hand over bin Laden, the spymaster instead secretly told Omar to resist, an ex-Taliban official told TIME. Word of this double cross reached Musharraf, who on Oct. 7 replaced Ahmed as ISI boss. He put in Lieut. General Ehsan ul-Haq, a trusted head of military intelligence who shares Musharraf's more Westernized outlook. His orders from the President were to weed out "the beards," as Islamic...
...home in London—I helped the Crimson team to another 23-2 victory. This was it, I thought: a turning point. Come what may, I was an all-American boy. England had much to offer, but the crack of the bat was just too much to resist. It was in my blood, you see. Nature had at last won out over nurture. And then the game was written up in Monday’s Crimson and I found myself described as an “expatriate Englishman.” Oh, bloody hell...
...represents the understanding that blatant and degrading stereotypes are destructive not only to the groups directly targeted but also to an inclusive American society as a whole. Such racist stereotypes, by their very nature, are not funny. The fact that diverse groups have rallied together in large numbers to resist this latest incarnation of cultural ignorance is a promising sign that more and more people respect the distinction between comedy and condescension...
Remember: Once you make a call, you might not like what you hear. If you have an itchy dialing finger, resist temptation. Put it in your pocket...