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...country as well as they assume. Despite its freewheeling reputation, Thailand surpasses even Japan in its adherence to stifling social hierarchies?note the national obsession with uniforms. It is also, considering Bangkok's sexual notoriety, a surprisingly prudish place. Soap operas are so straitlaced that they cannot broach the topic of "minor wives," as mistresses are euphemistically known. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Culture (a Thaksin-era invention) pesters young women who wear skimpy clothes during the annual Songkran water-splashing festival, even though "traditional" Thai women wore even less. This public puritanism explains the enduring popularity of the demure "sniff...
...That’s a good try,” Summers replied. “As president of the University, it was a mistake for me to wade into a topic where I’m not an expert on all of the various kinds of research that have taken place...
Debt relief may sound boring, a topic best relegated to policy wonks and academics. But of late, the subject has seemed almost, well, sexy. At the annual meeting of world leaders at Davos, Switzerland, in January, one of the most exciting moments followed an impassioned speech by President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania, who proclaimed that his country can do nothing about poverty so long as it is burdened with heavy debt payments. Sharon Stone leaped to her feet and called for the stunned audience to help--and promptly raised some $100,000. But after the stars fade from the headlines...
Hooven first became interested in sex differences through her study of chimpanzees in Uganda. Her interest in the topic prompted her to write Summers a personal letter of support...
...least—although his reporting on the Thernstrom controversy is more than a decade old—Wiener’s reporting on the topic is thorough, if outdated. The same cannot be said for his next chapter, a poorly-researched piece that slams Ulrich and several other venerable scholars...