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Rape, a Scar from Apartheid
By EUSEBIUS MCKAISER
Every 26 seconds a woman is raped in South Africa. Every six hours one is killed by an intimate partner. Why?
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The Year of the Stray Dog
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After a long, dark year, a rebellious Chinese writer seeks a new beginning with his family.
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The articles these reporters may have been most eager to forget are the ones that are the most instructive.
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A Stain That Won’t Wash Away
By ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN
There should be a criminal prosecution that holds BP individuals responsible for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Skyfall on Istanbul
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The notion that Istanbul triumphs over those who try to possess her is an illusion as romantic as the idea that James Bond always wins. I still cling to it.
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Does India's long-range ballistic-missile test mark the beginning of a nuclear race with China?
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Returning to the Sermon on the Mount
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The Sermon on the Mount may be considered a central teaching of Christianity, but it offers little real guidance on how to live.
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If you’ve got a student at or applying to college, ask the administrators how much the students there learn, and how they know for sure. 
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My Grandfather's Life Insurance Policy
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How to cheerfully prepare for the worst.
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American Nuns, Conscience and the Vatican
It would be a great loss if the voices of America’s nuns were restricted by the Vatican’s inquiry into their leadership conference.
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The Courage of Dieu Cay and Natalya Radzina
The Committee to Protect Journalists has named 12 countries that allow deadly violence against the press to go unpunished. When that happens, everyone pays a price.
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The Obama administration’s new rules aimed at cutting harmful emissions from natural gas wells are a win for the environment, for the public and for industry.
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With a murder and corruption scandal surrounding a former member of China’s elite leadership, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao called for the government to end a culture of graft lest it threaten Communist rule.
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