Word: taboos
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...dying was medicalized, it was removed from our lives--to the ICU and the funeral home--both fairly new institutions if you consider how long people have been dying. Dislodged by modernity, dying became a taboo, slightly gross subject for polite conversation. Physicians and the families of their patients began to see death as a defeat, not an inevitable culmination. "We need education," says Dr. Kerry Cranmer of the American Medical Directors Association. "Instead surgeons get together when a patient dies to find out who screwed...
...used to be that foreign affairs and national security were taboo topics for partisan potshots.? Not this year; instead of stopping at the water's edge, politics in Washington is plunging off the deep end. This Wednesday, the House Republican leadership's Policy Committee will produce a 209-page report pillorying the Clinton administration for its handling of Russia. The main target? Al Gore, who gets two chapters all to himself - one concerning the bilateral commission he chaired with former Russian prime minister and Gazprom magnate Viktor Chernomyrdin, the other on the "barnyard epithet" Gore reportedly scrawled across...
...these eight tales, frisky and wryly sympathetic Bloom, a Connecticut psychotherapist, introduces a heterodox band of characters that includes a girl awaiting transsexual surgery at a "gender reassignment" clinic. Bloom's specialty is flipping a taboo on its head. "I didn't want to shock God," says a woman who has made love in a synagogue. "What would have shocked God? Two more naked people, trying to wrestle time to a halt?" Maybe three...
...response" to terrorism. R. James Woolsey, former CIA chief and a member of the terror commission, testified after the report's release that though Greece had been given "substantial information" on 17 November, and had gathered much of its own, it had failed to act. Woolsey even broached a taboo topic in Greece--the fate of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. "As long as 17 November is still potentially a greeting committee for Americans and others," he said, "people should at least begin to rethink the location of the Olympics...
...York that have elected Jews to the Senate, but also Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, Oregon and Connecticut. That and the fact that President Clinton has appointed more Jews to the Cabinet than any of his predecessors suggests that Gore isn't so much breaking a taboo as confirming a trend...