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Palestinian militants often treat Western activists in the West Bank and Gaza with respect and gratitude until they find another use for them. Take, for example, the case of Kate Burton, a Scottish aid worker who was kidnapped, along with her parents, by Palestinian militants in 2005. The militants were only compelled to release the Burtons after the Palestinian Authority intervened...
...with the daughter and the dentist’s landlord happens to be the childrens’ father. “The exposure to the most influential British playwright of the 20th century is an opportunity you can’t miss. Shaw in performance is a really special treat and we’ve made it 10 times more fun than it is just on the page,” Birnbaum says. Though “You Never Can Tell” was originally set in the 1890s, Birnhaum’s version is loosely set in the 1920s...
...this divide need not exist. All of us, male and female, experience seemingly innocuous social pressures that push us towards prescribed gender roles. For example, the public still sees female sexuality as taboo—porn and erotica almost exclusively target men, while most people treat female masturbation as either astonishing or shameful. Similarly, boys still grow up learning that to be a real man they have to be out winning the bread, not at home baking it with their kids. Culture tells people these differences are “natural,” and many internalize them so thoroughly...
...Babel trots out favorite lefty stereotypes, from Third World victims to ugly Americans (and, to be fair, other ugly Westerners). The Moroccan kid who uses a bus for target practice comes off as a poor naf--if he were American, Hollywood would probably treat him as an example of our sick, gun-crazy society. The American couple are the kind of self-absorbed Yanks who jet off to a poor country to be "alone" among thousands of peasants, guarded and distanced from their surroundings, taking their Cokes without ice so as not to drink the water...
While this argument cannot, of course, be extrapolated to the debate over how to treat post-implantation embryos, the conclusion is nonetheless extremely relevant socially. For example, it shows that rape victims’ decisions to prevent embryo implantation are perfectly acceptable ethically, and can in no way be compared to the “death penalty...