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...agenda for 1984 and beyond. The Massachusetts senator, to his credit, has been one of the few liberal bulwarks against the cruel incursions of Reaganism over the past two years. Were it not for Kennedy’s loud and visible opposition, the President’s attempts to roll back some sensible and compassionate social programs might have met with even more success. Yet Kennedy’s political platform has often seemed more suited to the Great Society of the 1960s than to the more fiscally tight 1980s. Along with Bay State congressional colleague...
...White House hawks advocated prudent silence—the indefinite continuation of a century of defiant, nationalistic denial. Matters such as these show us that measured judgment and even condemnation have their place in international affairs—as in February, when the historically staunchly secularist Turks voted to roll back a ban on Islamic headscarves in state universities. Here, gender equity should prevail over democracy; the prohibition had served the commendable purpose of keeping a pattern of patriarchal exclusion out of educational institutions. The battle over the ban, still ongoing, is testament to Turkey’s schizoid situation...
...discussion group led by Peter Thompson, a charismatic Australian student and Anglican priest then in his 30s. (Thompson, who now lives in Melbourne, does not talk about his relationship with Blair.) I went up to Oxford just before Blair did; it was absorbed with sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, with a sprinkling of student politics on top, and to espouse religion of any sort was to mark yourself as something of a freak. (My own family was deeply religious, something I successfully hid from my Oxford friends for years.) Those in Oxford's "God squad," Blair remembers, were...
...Nevada in 1957, a time of rock 'n' roll (Elvis' Hound Dog is on the sound track), greasy-haired juvenile delinquents (including the main new character, Shia LaBeouf's Mutt Williams), commie-phobia (and why not? The Soviets have just penetrated a U.S. military base), fear of the Bomb (hmm, what's that mushroom cloud on the horizon?) and mass sightings of UFOS (coming soon to an archaeological dig near...
...hard to see how Beijing can stifle the civic impulses of the millions of Chinese who have been stirred into action by the humanitarian crisis. The earthquake has exposed how much China has changed and given a fleeting glimpse of what might be. The political and cultural aftershocks will roll on for years after the ground has ceased to tremble...