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...with rising protests last week, the county planning department warned in a letter to Mary McEachron, administrative director of the center, that "social disruption, demonstrations, pickets" might occur if the center conducts animal research. Such activity, the letter said, could "significantly reduce the quality of life and community self-esteem...
Then the planning department ordered the center to pony up $6,000 for a report on how the center would impact the self-esteem of county residents. Since the report will be included in a larger study on the environmental effects of the center, it might be called an emotional-impact statement. McEachron has another name for it: "Looney Tunes...
Moreover, dieters pay an exorbitant price in time, energy and self-esteem to attain and keep their ultra-slim figures. "Most people equate dieting with some kind of a masochistic ritual and cannot feel successful unless they are sacrificing all pleasure in eating," says Karen Miller-Kovach, director of nutrition services for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Except for extremely thin or extremely heavy people, Andersen flatly declares, "the emphasis should be off weight and on health...
That is the issue that lies behind the hullabaloo over "multiculturalism" and "political correctness," the attack on the "Eurocentric" curriculum and the rise of the notion that history and literature should be taught not as disciplines but as therapies whose function is to raise minority self-esteem. Group separatism crystallizes the differences, magnifies tensions, intensifies hostilities. Europe -- the unique source of the liberating ideas of democracy, civil liberties and human rights -- is portrayed as the root of all evil, and non-European cultures, their own many crimes deleted, are presented as the means of redemption...
...century mosque in the north Indian town of Ayodhya. The B.J.P. claims the site marks Rama's birthplace but that Mogul rulers destroyed a Hindu temple there and built a mosque in its place. There is no conclusive evidence of that claim, but as a point of Hindu self-esteem, the B.J.P. demands that the mosque be moved and a huge temple to Rama built on the spot. Muslims have resisted that demand, as have all of India's governments to date, providing the B.J.P. with an explosive platform. Last October, Rama's fanatical devotees stormed the heavily policed mosque...