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...Australia, once a penal colony, Valerie Garton, 61, warns that "one must never start family history unless you're willing to accept everything you find." Garton's great-grandfather was transported to Tasmania for stealing sheep. Only a few decades ago, it was considered a taboo Down Under to admit to convict ancestry, and early census records were destroyed by politicians and others who did not want their origins revealed. But lately it has become fashionable to be a first-fleet Australian. Likewise, in the new South Africa, nonwhite ancestry for an Afrikaner is not only politically correct but socially...
...constraints of being the wife of a reigning King, she may speak out more forcefully. Famous for angering Washington with her views supporting Palestinian rights and, at one time, urging negotiation with Saddam Hussein, she is now tempted, it seems, to enter areas of advocacy that are politically taboo in the Arab world, such as democracy and human rights. Most dear to her is the new King Hussein Foundation, which seeks to promote debate and will perhaps offer a humanitarian prize. The work, in a way, would be an extension of Hussein's drive to modernize the Arab world. Noor...
...born psychiatrist, death was medicine's dirty secret. American doctors, she learned early on, rarely discussed the subject with the terminally ill, and the idea of administering pain killers or letting patients die at home or with their families around them was almost unheard of. Determined to overthrow this taboo, she interviewed hundreds of dying patients, sometimes in the presence of startled medical students. Her best-selling 1969 book, On Death and Dying, detailed her now popularly accepted conclusions. The dying, she wrote, go through five psychological stages: denial ("No, it won't happen"), anger ("Why me?"), bargaining ("God, just...
Women who work for the organization have statedtheir satisfaction with the opportunities at thePudding. Women participate in the band, productionand technical aspects of the show; it's just thestage that's taboo...
Ragtime conforms nicely to these standards, while still making a strong statement about the so-called "American Dream," circa 1900. The then-taboo issues of racism, xenophobia, unwed mothers and exploitation of the lower classes, to name just a few of the topics sung about onstage, are brought up with a bit of cliche, but are tackled with honest zeal nonetheless. The plot revolves around three families--one upper-class WASP, one black and one immigrant Jewish--who are striving for success and happiness in turn-of-the-century America, which is offering them as much adversity...