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...faith-even though Moses did it*-has traditionally been frowned upon by devout Jews. Some traditional families still mournfully recite the service for the dead when a rebellious son weds a shiksa. Nonetheless, the number of mixed marriages in the U.S. is at a level that may well threaten the survival of U.S. Jewry as a religious community. The reason: the Jewish partner often abandons his religious practice and raises his children in the faith, or nonfaith, of his spouse...
...border region, where nomadic shiftas (raiders) from Somalia have recently stepped up their attacks on a part of Kenya that is inhabited by Somalis. The government set up a five-mile-wide buffer strip along the ill-defined border, where, it claimed, shiftas "steal cattle, beat women, threaten to murder tribal chiefs and others"; last week four tribesmen were killed and eight were injured in one raid. Kenya's Somalis have repeatedly asked to be annexed to Somalia. To prevent their secession and fight off the raiders, one Kenya politician has urged the government to send former...
Finger of Fate. All this worries many thoughtful academicians. Biologist Caryl P. Haskins, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington warned last week that Big Science crash projects threaten to create "massive imbalances" in U.S. research. The Ph.D. drive also alarms liberal arts colleges that cannot compete with big universities for research-minded students and professors. What is happening, asks Columbia University's Provost Jacques Barzun, "to the beautiful notion of developing the imaginative and the reasoning powers apart from marketable skill?" In a day when "one sheepskin to one sheep is no longer enough," he says, "the liberal...
...book of world issues is thick," says one State Department man. "They're going to require decisions." Everywhere the new Administration looks, there are banked fires that could crackle into life at any moment. In the Mideast, the Arab states threaten war if Israel goes ahead next spring with its planned diversion of the River Jordan's waters. In Laos, the fighting between the Communist Pathet Lao and the neutralists could flare any time. In Brazil, runaway inflation threatens the nation with chaos. There are incipient crises in Chile and Haiti, Cambodia and Malaysia, and a shooting...
Shunning duty and emotion, Julien, the new husband, pulls aloof from his wife as soon as her adoration begins to threaten his freedom to shoot ducks and philander. "Why shouludn't life be easy?" he demands, and unencumbered by scruples, he sets out to prove that it is. Sullenly stalking pleasures, he leaves Jeanne, the young wife, to stifle her disappointment and cherish he rare audiences he permits...