Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Well-Made World #10

the U.S:

Europe:

  • Gay activists recently beaten in Moscow receive another slap in the face on the BBC's Today Show, where Robert Service, a professor of Russian history at St. Antony's College spoke of his "amazement at how open and tolerant the Russian people are today, so soon after Uncle Joe's demise," and explained that while the police acted brutally, they were "not wholly out of step with popular opinion in the country."
  • Michelle Goldberg on the World Congress of Families, which brought together the American Christian right with Vatican officials, leading Polish politicians, and others from across the Americas, Europe, and Africa. She describes the impact this might have not only on everything from the spread of creationism to the fate of the children's show Telletubbies.

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