Word: bureaucratice
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At first glance the Thai system, which is being considered for possible adoption by Indonesia and the Philippines, seems harmless enough. Every citizen over age 15 will be required to carry a card bearing a color photo, various pertinent facts (name, address and so on) and an identification number. Most...
Evil is anyone outside the tribe. Evil works by dehumanizing the Other. A perverse, efficient logic: identifying others as evil justifies all further evil against them. A man may kill a snake without compunction. The snake is an evil thing, has evil designs, is a different order of being. Thus...
Evidence of bureaucratic bulge is larded throughout the entrenched establishment that serves the five boroughs. City comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman notes that 50,000 jobs were added in the '80s, "when times were flusher." According to the Census Bureau, the city has 575 employees per 10,000 residents, in contrast to...
A person who is arrested without a warrant is entitled to a "prompt" ruling by a judge to determine whether the arrest was lawful. But what does "prompt" mean? Last week the Supreme Court held, in a 5-to-4 vote, that suspects may generally be jailed for as long...
The agency can afford nothing less if it is to outgrow its cold war roots. Policymakers lament the CIA's failure to warn earlier of Iraq's intention to invade Kuwait, and they demand intelligence on new topics, from industrial counterespionage to the AIDS epidemic's devastation of the political...