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A culture clash over modest dress

Carolyn Moynihan | 29 October 2006

An Australian mufti made headlines around the world this week with inflammatory comments on women's fashions. Boil away the rhetoric and there's a solid lesson to be learned.



Schools withhold sad facts about homosexual lifestyle

Rick Fitzgibbons | 25 October 2006 | comment 19

Teachers are being irresponsible when they teach that homosexuality is a healthy lifestyle.



Marriage: still in demand

Jennifer Roback Morse | 24 October 2006

For the first time married couples are a minority of all American households.



FOCUS ON FASHION
Let’s beat the Dolly syndrome

Rachael Patterson | 20 October 2006

Teen magazines continue to propagate a damaging message to girls about their abilities and self-worth.



Conversing with Islam

Martyn Drakard | 20 October 2006

There are potholes of misunderstanding on both sides of the road to dialogue with Muslims, as this conversation with a Kenyan student makes clear.



FOCUS ON FASHION
Audrey Hepburn, where are you in our hour of need?

Guiomar Barbi | 20 October 2006 | comment 2

There's nothing like a weekend in Miami to remind you that most bodies look better in clothes.



FOCUS ON FASHION
Real women wear size 46 - and smile

Adela Lo Celso and Alegria Duran-Ballen | 19 October 2006

The advertising industry is waking up to the fact that women don't want to look like the waifs and sirens of the magazines.



Silence

Frank Brennan | 19 October 2006 | comment 1

A specialist in palliative care remembers a poignant moment in his professional work.



A hard cell on TV

Michael Cook | 18 October 2006

Using TV ads to present the truth about embryo research is an uphill slog.



Remembering a poet of commitment

Michael Cook | 15 October 2006 | comment 1

Thirty years after James McAuley's death, his verse has lost none of its brilliance.



Wringing a continent dry to put a ring on her finger

Martyn Drakard | 14 October 2006

Diamonds may be a Western girl's best friend, but they bring untold misery to Africa.



Three (hundred million) cheers for America

Carolyn Moynihan | 14 October 2006

And two cheers for the population doomsayers -- because they need cheering up.



After Castro, what comes next?

Pedro Dutour | 13 October 2006

The end draws near for the world's longest-serving leader. How will ordinary Cubans cope?



FOCUS ON C-38
C-38: the search for marriage

Michael Cook | 12 October 2006

A thought-provoking Canadian documentary demolishes the case for same-sex marriage.



Why Canada should re-visit same-sex marriage

Margaret Somerville | 11 October 2006 | comment 2

Children are being ignored as adults re-engineer the family, claims one of Canada's leading ethicists.



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