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...notion that an atmosphere of silence, shame and secrecy is morally superior to one of candor and informed opinion is ridiculous. Forced repression of the facts of human sexuality has devastated far more lives than AIDS ever will. Kevin Mayfield Conshohocken...
...handed slant on some stories than on others. After U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff was arrested as a spy in Moscow in late August, TASS declared he had been "caught red-handed" and that "it would seem proper that his bosses should still their tongues out of shame." The Soviet news agency used the episode as an opportunity to lambaste the CIA, reminding readers how the agency "prepared such subversive acts as the intrusion of a South Korean Boeing aircraft into Soviet airspace or the assassination attempt on the Pope, later falsely claiming that Bulgaria was involved...
...Farewell to a Decent Man" [Jan. 15]: Shame on TIME for insufficiently acknowledging the contributions of Gerald Ford, perhaps one of the most important American Presidents of the 20th century--certainly one of the most decent. Ford deserved to be on TIME's cover. He may not have been flashy or tested well with TV audiences, but he was a President with courage, wisdom, honesty, integrity and compassion--in other words, a leader in whom we could place our trust. What other person could have done the hard but necessary work of leading the country out of, as President Ford...
...Today, the group maintains homes for abused Asian women in Derby and nearby cities, and Sanghera lectures widely on the problem. But she has paid a price for her fame. "People here regard me as a woman with no shame, hence the book's title," says Sanghera, in a strong Midlands accent, from her home in Derby. "I get intimidating phone calls, saying my kids will be hurt, my legs chopped off if I don't return their daughter. I've had human feces smeared on my window and signs painted on my car." Her brother was beaten...
...becoming law without government support. Sanghera intends to expand Karma Nirvana, eventually to Scotland and Wales, and dreams of a "national network of friendship for women like me, women who are alone. We will send them birthday cards." As Sanghera has learned from the tumultuous life described in Shame, there is more than one kind of family...