Word: assertation
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...been a fact of life here since the colonial period, and up to this very day with the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and influx of non-governmental organizations. In a Foucauldian sense, all these institutions assert incredible power by defining what is better for Tanzania through the idea of development. But in many ways these organizations are selling a pipe dream to Tanzanians. Development, whatever that means, isn’t happening in my home-stay village, no matter how much Western education is emphasized...
...Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville famously opposed freedom with equality, suggesting that the passion for the latter would always override the will for individual liberty. At present, we are confronted with an exception to his rule, as popular majorities assert their collective will by denying same-sex couples the equal legal standing they themselves enjoy. While America’s participatory democracy is in most cases something to be elevated and emulated, in the particular case of minority rights, electoral majorities should not have the final word. This is especially true when popular sentiment demands changes in the constitutions...
...devastation that long-term incarceration can cause. Most important, there is Léa. It is she who has loved Juliette so long and who is determined to bring her back to the land of the living. She is intelligent, but she has the good sense not to boldly assert it. She just goes swimming and shopping with her sister, in effect showing her the simple pleasures of the quotidian - of not succumbing to self-pity, of taking responsibility for modest, restorative actions. She is very well and unsentimentally played by Zylberstein...
...early October, Bishop Joseph Martino of Scranton released a letter to be read in every pulpit in the diocese that said, in part: "Abortion is the issue this year and every year in every campaign. [Catholics] are wrong when they assert that abortion is only one of a multitude of issues of equal importance. Abortion must take precedence over every other issue." But just last fall, the American bishops released Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility, a document that reminded Catholics that "all life issues are connected." Over the past few years, archbishops around the country have spoken...
...whisper. Why? Because so many people believe the answer is an ugly one: bias, prejudice, racism--take your pick. Some attribute it to something less distasteful: Obama's unfamiliarity, his "exotic" background, his comparatively recent emergence on the political stage. The doubters--they would call themselves realists--often assert that these are just euphemisms for prejudice, a way of camouflaging what lies beneath...