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...risk of sounding like one of those smugly insipid moralists who extrapolate from isolated incidents a widespread societal malaise, these two cases signify a worrying trend of moral abdication. The alcoholism excuse is a way of denying human agency, of viewing sin not as a choice, but as a pathology...
...virtual illiteracy about the religious histories, traditions, and values of people who are near-neighbors is widespread. Hair-trigger media coverage turns obscure Danish cartoons or a university lecture by Pope Benedict XVI into international controversies. We live in such virtual proximity today that stereotypes and half-truths are not only unacceptable in world affairs, but dangerous...
...persistent diarrhea. His parents, Jurin and Nazdin, educated Dhaka residents, wait anxiously as he receives intravenous fluids. "We don't understand where this is coming from," says Nazdin. But Sack, the center's executive director, knows. Malnutrition and diarrhea go hand-in-hand, and in Bangladesh both are so widespread that not even middle-class children can escape their self-perpetuating cycle. "If you have a child that is malnourished and who then loses more weight through diarrhea, and tries to make it up, but never makes it up because he is weak and has another episode of diarrhea, then...
...French girls were happily released from a heritage that has no place in the modern world. Belgium, Denmark and Singapore have taken similar steps. Britain has been both more relaxed about cultural differences and over-anxious about challenging unacceptable practices. Few Britons have realized that the hijab - now more widespread than ever - is, for Islamicist puritans, the first step on a path leading to the burqa, where even the eyes are gauzed over. I have interviewed young women who say they feel so wanton wearing only a headscarf that they will adopt the niqab. Now even 6-year-olds...
...STEPS BACK, ONE STEP FORWARD Condoleezza Rice returns from a surprise visit to Iraq and announces that Iraqis are making progress. That contrasts with the widespread downbeat accounts. However, her plane's landing in Baghdad was delayed for 45 minutes because of mortar fire--so maybe she missed the bad stuff...