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...said. “He made the back page of the Harvard Salient a must-read for three years.” Douthat isn’t just a fill-in for Kristol’s specific conservative voice, Ambinder said. “It’s safe [for the Times] to choose a Bill Kristol because he won’t persuade people to see his point of view,” he said. “Ross isn’t like that. Ross is going to persuade people...
...Japan, there's a clear recognition of the economic link between feeling safe and feeling confident. In a March 7 interview with TIME in Tokyo, Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan and the front runner to be Japan's next Prime Minister (if he can avoid the fallout from a scandal over political fundraising), said "giving a sense of security to the population" was key to economic recovery. Ozawa argues that only if families feel that their basic needs have been taken care of - needs like health care and provision for retirement - will they...
...results of a rapid HIV test. I felt confident that I’d test negative, but getting tested for HIV is something you’re “supposed” to do if you’re young and sexually active. “Better safe than sorry,” is the mantra we’re trained to repeat before taking a stranger’s (literal or figurative) candy...
...Framing safe heterosexual intercourse in the language of “men are dogs—protect yourself!” constructs a hypothetical, collective female vulnerability that deprives women of agency in their sexual encounters. Rather than empowering women, it establishes a paradigm in which women are victims of men’s animalistic urges. In reality, men are not the sole indulgers in promiscuity. This characterization assumes that men are infidels and that women are their perpetual victims, when this is by no means a universal truth. Forced sexual encounters are tragic occurrences that will erode sexual equality...
...ensure that incidents like Sunday's showdown in the South China Sea "do not happen again." The incident in question involved several Chinese naval vessels harassing a U.S. surveillance ship off the island of Hainan. But despite the soothing words of the two top diplomats, it's a safe bet that more such incidents can be expected in the future. The Pentagon was quick to note that the mariners aboard the U.S.N.S. Impeccable were civilians working for the Military Sealift Command, while the Chinese side stressed that the confrontation involved local fishing boats. The reality is that the incident occurred...