Word: answering
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...demonstrated that the Bengal famine was caused by an urban economic boom that raised food prices, thereby causing millions of rural workers to starve to death when their wages did not keep up. And why didn't the government react by dispensing emergency food relief? Sen's answer was enlightening. Because colonial India was not a democracy, he said, the British rulers had little interest in listening to the poor, even in the midst of famine. This political observation gave rise to what might be called Sen's Law: shortfalls in food supply do not cause widespread deaths...
...movement reaches critical mass. Fifteen years ago, there were perhaps 50 families home-schooling their kids in Wichita. Afraid that the practice violated Kansas law, they met in secret and kept their children inside during school hours. Most publishers refused to sell them teachers' guides, assuming they wanted the answer sheets to help their kids cheat. So they bought the textbooks Christian schools were throwing away. Home-schooled kids didn't have many academic or extracurricular outlets, which was all right, since almost all were under...
What weighs more than the Starr Report's measly 6-plus lbs.? If you can answer that question (hint: 3,600 readers responded to our SEPT. 21 coverage of Starr's findings), you're ready for further grilling. By way of study materials, the Letters column has already offered up digests of more than 14,000 opinions we've received on the characters in the drama as well as thematic briefs on all the scandal's subplots. You know what sex is, and it's our bet you know what "is" is. But can you second-guess what...
...answer may be simple: fear of a lawsuit. About half the states recognize a right of publicity, which generally keeps people from commercially exploiting another's name or face without his or her consent. These laws make licensing arrangements necessary, and so far, there's no Monica licensing deal. Clinton enjoys these protections too, but few public officials have deemed the cost and bad publicity of a lawsuit worth the bother. Moreover, a government official's lawsuit may violate free-speech protections...
...Britain to handle alone." As Pinochet's lawyers fought for his release in London, the Spanish high court was considering a magistrate's extradition request. If Madrid drops the case, Britain will still face pressure to try Pinochet in London or turn him over to answer new charges filed in Switzerland and France. But the political fallout in Chile may persuade Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw to veto any further legal proceedings on humanitarian grounds. "If the Spanish drop their claim, you can bet Pinochet will be on the next plane out," says Hillenbrand. And probably a little leery...