Word: taboo
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...viewed as aberrations, and society would probably not hesitate to quickly lump even children into broad categories. These social constructs would only intensify the manipulative and sad pressure on children to view themselves in light of sexual norms. Instead of waiting for genetics to clear homosexuality’s taboo, the most advantageous avenue is redoubling support for awareness events like Gaypril. On a wider level, activists should urge those like the once-liberal Pope Benedict XVI to continue the reformation of the Catholic Church, or lobby the Food and Drug Administration to remove gay men from...
...revolutionary. The first proposal, for instance, is to put patients' interests first. But mixed among the ideas, planners included an out-of-the-box proposal that would allow private clinics to offer certain services currently available only under Medicare and--gadzooks!--charge the patients directly for them. Another Canadian-taboo breaker is a proposal to allow Alberta doctors to work simultaneously in and outside the public-health sector; now doctors must choose one or the other. Antonia Maioni, director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, calls the plan a significant departure from the status...
Indeed, what makes the rise of sectarian violence so chilling is precisely the difficulty involved in carrying it out. Some Shi'ite mobs last week stopped people in the street and demanded to see their ID cards, looking for Sunni names. Each sect regards some names as taboo, usually because they are associated with hated figures from history. But that too is imprecise: the vast majority of Muslim names are used by both sects. In the end, as is often the case in sectarian wars, many of the victims of last week's violence were simply fingered by their neighbors...
...University in general.”Dershowitz, who is among those who view the fight over Summers’ presidency as one about intellectual freedom, said he will teach a course at the Law School next year inspired by Summers’ tenure.It will be called “Taboo.”—Javier C. Hernandez contributed to the reporting of this story.—Staff writer Anton S. Troianovski can be reached at atroian@fas.harvard.edu...
...crisis have been avoided? By missing or ignoring opportunities to contain the controversy at an early stage, the editors of Jyllands-Posten, Muslim leaders and Danish politicians all contributed to the notion that the dispute was the product of irreconcilable cultural differences. The most obvious centered on the Islamic taboo on images of the Prophet: devout Muslims consider any depiction of the Prophet blasphemous. But the Danish cartoons stirred outrage among moderate Muslims less because the cartoons depicted Muhammad than because of the way in which the Prophet was portrayed. "Eleven of the series were problematic but not outrageous," says...