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Wright offers no actual examples of a libertarian society in action, although he suggests that the Founding Fathers thought along somewhat libertarian lines and implemented many libertarian principles when they designed American government. The only attempt to set up a totally libertarian world occurred when a group of libertarians claimed a coral reef in the Pacific as their own nation, with hopes of filling in enough land to establish a tiny island-nation where a libertarian paradise could reign. Their hopes were demolished when an envoy of angry tribesmen from a nearby island informed them that the island was already...
...last part of the research attempts to determine if Congressmen take the specific problems and characteristics of their regions into account when voting on legislation. "This is an attempt to understand the Federal decision-making process," Jackson said...
...rectitude as a writer, generally and firmly established may I hope, to reverse this misunderstanding as a public fact. I am simply not the sort of person who does things like this. Anyone who knows me knows that. Oh, I like a good joke, but I do not attempt to cause people considerable inconvenience or, worse, insulting bewilderment. Therefore, although I have done nothing, I apologize to everyone who thought otherwise...
...membership in order to enable Israel to be readmitted to the European regional group is both welcome and long overdue. The 1974 vote to exclude Israel from that group, and thereby from participation of any kind in UNESCO, was based on dishonest premises and represented nothing less than another attempt to delegitimize Israel by forces opposed to the very existence of the state. Their contention at the time that Israeli archeological excavations in East Jerusalem were being carried out without regard to the safety of Moslem holy sites was fraudulent. The argument made by one UNESCO delegate that Israel should...
...your articles suggest, the KTA contribution may be interpreted as an attempt to improve the reputation of Korea and its government in American academic circles. It is clear, however, that the University has not agreed to any constraints on its part in respect to the voicing of antagonistic opinions of the Park Chung-hee regime by any of its faculty members or students. Though it is true that the University accepted the money, it is also true that it would only accept it with no strings attached...