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This knowledge guarantees that she will some day journey with her father to observe Condor society firsthand. But once she makes the trip, she is sorry. The Condors are everything that the Kesh are not: violent, destructive, acquisitive, caste ridden, competitive. "Everything they did," North Owl notes, "was war." High...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: History of an Imagined World Always Coming Home | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Yesterday, Harvard contacted Barbara Rice, business agent of the Hotel and Restaurant Worker Local 26 in an attempt to reschedule talks. Harvard officials claim Rice said the caste was closed, Rice, however, claims that she said nothing of the sort.

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Harvard, Union Hit New Snag in Talks | 7/9/1985 | See Source »

As I began work in the United Nations and disarmament section, I discovered how lucky I was. The "Germanists," the "disarmament boys," the "Americanists," the "Europeans" (chiefly concerned with Soviet-French relations) and a small group of others belonged to a privileged caste. We were envied by the "provincials," who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking with Moscow | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

My personal reward for being Gromyko's adviser was that I became a member of the nomenklatura hierarchy. This is a list of the most important posts in the party, government administration and other institutions. These positions are filled by direct party appointment or with party approval. Nomenklatura is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nomenklatura, A FOSSILIZED ELITE | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

Among the issues that have been most distorted is the very nature of the Sikh-Hindu rift in the realm of religious doctrine. By stressing Sikh monotheism and opposition to the caste system in contrast to Hindu polytheism and age-old caste system. Western observers have presented the two religions...

Author: By Sung HEE Suh, | Title: Rocking the Ship of State | 11/20/1984 | See Source »

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