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...will refrain altogether, to avoid alienating the majority of young people, among whom he is now popular. Young Iranians are excited to find a leader who lets them wear baggy jeans and pink veils, and still stands up to what they consider a belligerent U.S. "Our civilization is far superior," says Vahid Mobaraki, 28, a gold merchant in the Tehran bazaar. "We don't need to be bossed around by a country with only 200 years of history...
...subjects of race and ethnicity are not really part of public debate." That may be changing. The Spanish government has invested some €200 million in campaigns to promote tolerance, including screening educational films at stadiums and requiring guides against racism to be distributed. Last year, the government's Superior Council for Sports (csd) worked with soccer leagues on a program to teach racial sensitivity to both players and fans, established the Observatory to monitor xenophobic incidents, and outlined penalties for racist behavior. Last month uefa and Football Against Racism in Europe (fare) - an organization devoted to countering racism...
Differences in innate behaviors and aptitudes do not make one gender superior to the other; instead, contrasts benefit both genders by equipping the two to work best together, like a lock and key. Men and women bring to the table different skills that make them able to accomplish more as a mixed gender team than alone...
...about ethical questions. Indeed, a host of courses in the humanities and social sciences deal with moral questions. Even science courses, not usually thought of as ethics-related, are expanding to address bioethical questions. We do not see why the political philosophy approach to moral issues is so far superior as to coerce students to face it.Some proponents agree with this critique of the current Moral Reasoning system and suggest that Harvard instead require an “ethically related” course. Approving a course to be ethically related, however, would force students into selecting from a small, inevitably...
...Shunsuke goes heavily into debt to build a modern, American-style house. That pile becomes a metaphor for the marriage and much else. The roof leaks. Plants die on the sunbaked veranda. And when the Japanese-made air-conditioning system breaks down, Shunsuke learns he could have had a superior American version for a fraction of the price. "What we've learned from the West is often in conflict with our traditions," he tells a colleague. "We suffer from the outcome of those conflicts in our homes...