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Going forward, the U.S.'s knowledge economy may be a setup for a greater degree of income equality, but it's certainly no guarantee. To take one small example, if we, as a society, decide that new areas of knowledge are eligible for strict patents and copyrights - and that that knowledge can then be cloistered within the lineage of the inventor - it will be easier for a parent to pass wealth onto a child and, as a consequence, keep that family richer than others. Economic systems matter. But we're still the ones in control...
Zero-tolerance policies have always come under fire for being too strict. Christie’s case illustrates just why more flexibility may be necessary; the consequences seemed to far outstrip the crime. Indeed, although zero-tolerance policies are necessary measures for ensuring the safety of America’s schools, fairness requires that the punishments assigned for violating these policies be discretionary...
When Rhoda Janzen went away to college, she was determined to leave her past behind. But unlike the average independence-minded freshman, Janzen was Mennonite - a member of a small, strict Christian denomination with only 110,000 members in the U.S. She went on to earn a Ph.D. from UCLA and become an English professor. But in 2006, at age 43, a personal crisis sent her back to her Mennonite roots in Fresno, Calif. Janzen has written a new book about her unusual journey, Mennonite in a Little Black Dress (Henry Holt). TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Janzen...
...assistants teeter in shoes that might have absorbed much of their monthly paycheck; executives parade the halls in power suits and pencil skirts. But Rotana isn't in New York or London; it's in Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia, a country in which women normally adhere to a strict dress code in public - a black cloak called an abaya, a headscarf and a veil, the niqab, which covers everything but their eyes...
Millions of Saudis, of course, still adhere to the strict religious and social conservatism that dates to the 18th century pact made between Mohammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab, a puritanical preacher, and the founder of the Saud dynasty Mohammed ibn Saud. And many conservatives resent the social changes the King is pushing. "Those around King Abdullah use his peaceful positions to impose secular values," says conservative cleric Mohsen al-Awajy. "But Saudi society is a special, tribal society, and neither King Abdullah or anyone else can impose his own interpretation of Islam. They can do nothing without Islam. There...