Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LOUIS: Once again, history got itself a nice round number -- courtesy of Mark McGwire. With all due respect to the wild-card playoff game that Sammy Sosa and the Cubs will play against the San Francisco Giants on Monday, the 162-game regular season is over, and so is the historic 1998 home run race. Mark McGwire did that with four staggering blasts in two days, leaving his comrade-in-forearms Sammy blinking in the dust and trying to help his Cubs find their way into the playoffs. Any Sosa comeback now in his extra nine innings is practically...
...hiring, supervision, and retention of employees, we apply uniform standards of conduct and procedure...without respect to any non-job related factors, including race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, and other personal characteristics," he said...
...problem is, what Madonna gave us isn't Hindu (or Indian or even South Asian) culture. Instead she gave us ritualistic verses and dance steps ripped completely out of context. I admire Madonna and respect her efforts to expand our collective cultural experience. Unfortunately, by using her artistic license to syncretize Hindu and South Asian cultural elements with the Western performance culture, Madonna ran the risk of trivializing the faith of others. What began as a well-intentioned impulse to enrich our multicultural milieu backfired by alienating the very people whose traditions she was attempting to introduce to the general...
...issue is not that Hindu religious symbols have been used inappropriately: Hinduism is one of the world's most inclusive faiths, and its adherents certainly have no monopoly over the use of its symbols. But when these symbols are abused, and Hindu religious beliefs are trivialized, the trust and respect with which we must all treat one another in a liberal, multicultural democracy is violated...
...dues; the nomination of Richard Holbrooke as ambassador to the U.N. is in grave trouble; and U.S. pronouncements about the so-called chemical weapons plant in Sudan are being scrutinized by the Security Council. But that doesn't mean they don't like Bill. "The diplomats respect him as an individual," says Stogel. "So there was melancholy in the air Monday. That ovation could be taken as a last farewell." Perhaps it's a good thing, after all, that no one was watching. Note: Adding to the morning's cruel ironies were reports that Japan's defense minister Fukushiro Nukaga...