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...Speaking Out If the developed world does not always do a good job of keeping itself well, health-care leaders there do understand that to fix the diseases you've got, you first have to talk about them. That is often not remotely the case elsewhere. In early September, Dr. Chiun-Sheng Huang, an oncologist at Taipei's National Taiwan University Hospital, examined a woman in her late 60s who had come to him for the first time. He discovered a tumor in her left breast so large that it had broken through her skin. She claimed she had first...
...Rugby, a Means to an End Re: "The Black Arts" [Sept. 17], it is diffi-cult to understand why your reporter Daniel Williams should single out the Springboks for being "brutal." After all, both the South Africans and the New Zealanders were originally taught this game by Scottish Presbyterians. The dour Scots obviously never fathomed the English humor in the ridiculous 16-man scrum. It was all meant as a joke, to keep robust adolescent schoolboys occupied during winter - when they could not play cricket. Deon Thom George, South Africa
...really, these sites aren't about connecting and reconnecting. They're a platform for self-branding. Old people are always worrying that our blogging and personal websites and MySpace profiles are taking away our privacy, but they clearly don't understand the word privacy. We're not sharing things we don't want other people to know. We're showing you our best posed, retouched photos. We're listing the Pynchon books we want you to think we've read all the way through. We're allowing other people to write whatever they want about us on our walls, unless...
...followed that normal political change ought to follow the path indicated by those who were most rational—that is, most educated, most skilled, therefore most wise.” The structuring fiction of this world order is the inequality of intelligences: If I understand the state of affairs better than the less-enlightened general population, it follows naturally that I should decide policy...
...artificiality. The inequality of intelligences can never be an objectively verifiable fact of human life; the metrics that establish intelligence are necessarily steeped in arbitrariness. Especially when referring to political knowledge, as “leaders” must, how can anyone claim superiority? How can one possibly understand the narratives, struggles, and hopes of the people “better” than they themselves? Indeed, much like the frenzied efforts colonial intellectuals devoted to constructing the criteria with which to judge “civilization” and “backwardness...