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...honorable to feed and cure people today (as we traditionally understand by “charity”), but it is at least as important to seek innovations that lower costs and increase the accessibility of basic necessities for survival. Why are some organizations and activities considered less worthy because they do not provide obvious, immediate proofs that they are useful? Why do we find it so difficult to abandon our love for short-term solutions and quick fixes...
...boomer choke back tears for the good old days [Oct. 1]. Back in the 1950s and early '60s, it was neither unlawful nor uncaring for adults to say that children should be seen but not heard. Kids got to be kids as they ran around outside playing hide-and-seek under the stars without worry of being snatched, molested or organized into youth activities, while parents sipped beer or pop while playing Yahtzee with their pals after hand-washing the dinner dishes. Nobody felt slighted, and nobody called child protective services. How sad and ironic that television - primarily responsible...
...option, but Belgrade could suspend diplomatic relations with the U.S. and other countries that recognize Kosovo. Losing Kosovo, a vital locus of Serbian national feeling, may also radicalize Serbian politics and push moderate nationalists like Kostunica away from the E.U. and into Russian hands. "Serbia should not seek the company of those who support tearing a piece of our territory away," Leon Kojen, a former chief Serbian negotiator, told the Belgrade daily Politika. Russia's intransigence, meanwhile, is part of a general hardening of Moscow's stance on a range of issues affecting its border with E.U. and NATO member...
...Reasonable Kudos to Michael Kinsley for highlighting the relevance of leaders' religious beliefs [Sept. 17]. Literal dogmatic beliefs of any kind can lead to behavior ranging from the benignly bizarre to the frighteningly dangerous. When people seek truth based on faith rather than evidence, their decisions are connected to reality only coincidentally and are often divorced from it. The risks that we all face when powerful people act on untested beliefs should be obvious. I can only hope that one day the majority will embrace candidates for whom reason, rather than God, is their adviser. Brendan Cameron Vancouver...
...Unlike on North Korea, a strong domestic political constituency backs a more hawkish line on Iran. Last spring, for example, in response to pressure from strongly pro-Israel Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi removed a provision in a military spending bill that would have required the President to seek congressional approval before attacking Iran. More recently, Congress moved out ahead of the Administration's own position on taking action against European companies doing business with Iran, and on declaring Iran's Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. With Israeli hawks warning that Iran threatens Israel's very existence, the pressure against...