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...lawyers offered, unsuccessfully, to introduce results of blood tests of the late third baron's blood as evidence in the complicated paternity issue. Whatever the lords eventually decide, the only person who knew for sure about Geoffrey's parentage will never tell. Serenely confident and "without one backward look that saddens or distresses me," Christabel Lady Ampthill died in Ireland last month...
...making sentences indeterminate for felonies, the bill would allow judges to hand down sentences from anywhere between one year and life for some crimes. But more power to judges, who often make decisions based on criteria other than crime, such as race, poverty, or even appearance, is a step backward in criminal...
...States has been generally free of what Europeans would call "Men of the Right." An amalgam of radical individualism and nativist Main Street values--anti-black, anti-foreign, fundamentalist--has historically passed as a unique American conservatism. Barry Goldwater and the Ku Klux Klan stand as separate archetypes, both backward-looking but emphasizing different elements of a preferred American past; the first upholding rugged and unfettered entrepeneurial skill in an age of strangulating bureaucracies, and the second a world of small-town community unperturbed by urban industrialization and its symbols...
Even private education is available on the parallel market. Coaching of backward students and conducting cram courses for admission to universities have become big business for moonlighting teachers; their wages normally range from 100 to 145 rubles a month-lower than the 153-ruble wage of the industrial worker. A poll conducted at Moscow University has shown that 85% of freshmen in the math department had used private tutors to prepare for admission...
While Saudi Arabia has used its oil revenues to take some steps toward economic modernization (slavery was abolished in 1963), its political system remains one of the most backward and repressive in the world. Political power is vested solely in the hands of the Saud family, as it has been for most of the 20th century. Fundamental civil liberties such as freedom of the press, freedom of speech and freedom of political expression are all systematically denied...