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...Political clans also scorn accountability. Benazir Bhutto's past two terms in office as Pakistan's Prime Minister were marked by massive corruption - under her rule, Transparency International ranked Pakistan as the world's second most corrupt nation, after Nigeria. Corruption can occur in any political system, but dynastic politics makes it worse. An expectation of entitlement reduces a politician's fear that he or she will be caught robbing the till, and the certainty that their sons or daughters will follow provides even more security that he or she will be protected from any future attempts to investigate corruption...
...Worlds,” Tom Cruise’s character represents what Faludi characterized as the deadbeat father who rescues his daughter from molesters and aliens and thus recovers his manhood.It is her former media colleagues, though, who bore the brunt of Faludi’s scorn in her talk at the bookstore.She cited numerous examples from publications like the New York Times, USA Today, and Newsweek to underscore their apparent efforts to erode the progress of the feminist movement in favor of traditionalism.Post-9/11 articles would often cast single women as unpatriotic, lonely, and out of sync...
...front row seat to this season’s televised zeitgeist!Here are five shows that are each only one season old, so you can still get in on the ground floor. To help gauge your priorities, we’ve given each one a “Public Scorn Index”—the likelihood that your peers will ridicule you for being out of the loop. Grab the Season 1 DVDs, and don’t get left behind again this fall.“30 Rock” (NBC)Thursdays, 8:30 p.m.Season Two Premiere...
...Entertaining the idea of mind-body duality invites the scorn of those who regard any attempt to dabble beyond the boundaries of conventional science as a waste of time. But that's the point, say others: NDEs don't fit into our current understanding of the brain. They shouldn't happen, yet they do. The task is to build new models in which they...
...Iranian films often refracted social drama through the prism of a young girl's viewpoint. Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical cartoon is the tale of her life in Tehran under two despots, the Shah and the Ayatollah. Harrowing yet buoyant, Persepolis earned the Jury Prize at Cannes and the official scorn of the Iranian clerics...