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...next time you need reminding that it's people's boyfriends and soccer coaches who will be bleeding, come listen as the tattooist sends her meat-tagged Marines off with these words, always these words: "For God's sake," she says, as she sees them to the door, "keep your head down...
...success: it is the one mass-entertainment category that thrives because of its audience's contempt for it. It makes us feel tawdry, dirty, cheap--if it didn't, we probably wouldn't bother tuning in. And in this, for once, the audience and critics agree. Just listen to the raves for America's hottest TV genre...
Anton Boerner, president of the BGA, Germany's federation of exporters and wholesalers, is jittery. "When you listen to Mr. Rumsfeld comparing Germany to Libya and Cuba, you don't need much imagination to see that we must be careful," he says. And he's not alone. There's a growing fear among German, French and Belgian businesspeople that their countries' dovish stance on Iraq could harm trade with America. In Belgium, where diamonds account for 25% of trade with the U.S., the industry has warned of "disturbing" signals from American buyers. In France, cheese dealers report falling sales...
...false consciousness is inherently condescending. It tells many women—perhaps even most women—that their way of living and thinking and presenting themselves as women is inauthentic. The paternalistic implication is that Ensler knows what these women really think and really want, and if they listen to her, they will be enlightened and realize she is right. After all, you have to trust a girl named Eve to help you “discover” your “true womanhood...
...suggesting that we should not speak our minds, nor should we hold ourselves back from voicing opinions that we feel will help to right the injustices we perceive in this world. I would just urge us all to listen before we speak. As contributors to the opinion pages we should strive to be more empathetic. If we—hundreds of thousands of miles away from the Temple Mount—can’t bring ourselves to try to see the other side before we spout our opinions, how can we ever hope for peace in the Middle East...