But diehard American spankers may take comfort from defying the latest piece of Utopian dottiness from the UN: a campaign to end the corporal punishment of children, all over the world, by 2009.

• 美国反体罚的铁杆先锋们或许会从嘲笑联合国的最新乌托邦美梦中得到些许慰藉--2009年之前在世界范围内全面消除针对儿童的体罚。