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...current obsession with “youth involvement” is very nice, but it already looks to have gone too far. We can’t send every problem to Washington to solve, and we can’t all become political pundits or state employees—even the idea is reckless and blinkered. Decry aspiring investment bankers all you like, but someone has to make the money that Washington spends. The wonderful part of America, or what America should be, is the ability of a person to ignore politicians and politics as much as possible. Love your...
...disorder during his lifetime is 48.6 percent. Although this data may go a long way towards explaining political phenomena in the United States, it is nonetheless not very reassuring that one-half of Americans are at some time certifiably bonkers—especially given our liberal gun laws. The problem isn’t just that we are crazy now; it’s that we are progressively getting crazier. The WHO predicts that by 2020 mental health disorders will become the second most common disease in the world, just behind heart disease. The basic consensus: if you aren?...
...plot ridicules the men who dare to believe that, due to specious tradition, they are superior to the other sex. In the third couple of the story, Mariko and Maritha, Thiong’o examines the ways in which Christianity impacts Africa. Mariko and Maritha are devout Christians whose problem is not one of violence. In fact, they have been happy partners for so many years that their fellow townsmen see them as twins. Society is shocked when they start coming before congregation every week to confess their secret lusts. Questions abound, both in the minds of the congregation...
...there's little doubt they'll be back in Iraq soon, in even larger numbers. Determined as the Turks may be, their military efforts have failed to solve the PKK problem since the 1980's when Kurds in southeastern Turkey began rebelling against discrimination by the Turkish state. There's little reason to believe that the military option will work this time, either. Most of the PKK's fighters in Iraq are based well away from the Turkish border, and there are plenty still running around inside Turkey as well...
...course of pursuing a masters degree, she became fascinated by the problem of child sexual abuse. "I was so naive I had no idea that sexual abuse even existed," she says. "Growing up and as a student nobody had ever discussed this subject with me." Kotb began extensive research on sexuality, realizing that "I was in total dimness." In the course of her French education and in her relatively liberal household, the topic of sexuality had simply been taboo...