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...East, the Malaysian government decided to cash in on gambling as a means of raising much-needed revenue. Surprisingly, the venture provoked little criticism from Malaysia's conservative Islamic population, and the government plans to issue more casino licenses. But, as Finance Minister Tan Siew Sin puts it, such casinos will be confined "to areas that are relatively inaccessible so that the poorer sections of our community cannot patronize them even if they want...
...message begins in the cradle and ends only in the grave: be on time. The early bird gets the worm. Time is money. Punctuality is the politeness of kings. Though our society has learned to excuse almost anything else, it still finds one sin-tardiness-unpardonable. It is as if we had collectively accepted Alice's harried, harassed White Rabbit ("Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I shall be too late!") as our model. Perhaps the only social canon of Emily Post's that still has all but universal acceptance is her dictum: "You must not be late...
America, the land of revivalism, has from the start alternated in its view between an awesome Christ and an accessible Christ. In the Calvinism of the original Great Awakening, Jesus was a severe judge; Jonathan Edwards and others emphasized sinful man's utter helplessness before him. In the 19th century revivals of Charles G. Finney and Dwight L. Moody, however, the Lord had become more sympathetic: he began to help those who helped themselves by responding to his grace. Pious white Sunday-school art has since made Jesus into an effete Aryan rather than a rugged Jewish carpenter, but that...
...monetary system can move either toward greater rigidity, with spreading controls on the movement of capital, or toward greater flexibility, with more frequent shifts in the exchange rates of big-time currencies. Proposals are being made in both directions. Many of the discussions are as secret as sin, to prevent speculators from gaining fortunes after sniffing out future changes. As University of San Francisco Economist Frederick Breier says: "In the old days, two subjects were taboo: sex and exchange rates. The first taboo has been lifted, but the second should not be." Still, many details of the proposals have filtered...
Into this comforting, wan world of theological thought came Reinhold Niebuhr, loosing the sobering wind of "Christian realism." Original sin stemming from Adam's fall was to be taken seriously but not literally, said Niebuhr. Man's great sin was willful pride, a universally "entrenched predatory self-interest" that exists in everyone, "benevolent or not." To ignore this basic reality-and man's need to struggle constantly against it-could only lead to moral and political confusion. The individual, Niebuhr contended, cannot excuse his immoral actions by "attributing them to the actions of others, even though there...