Word: citizenship
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...about whether Americans will demand a health care system as equitable as Austria's or West Germany's, or whether we will remain the only industrial nation save South Africa that doesn't guarantee health care as a right of citizenship. Other countries, such as Canada, provide equivalent care to all their citizens at roughly two-thirds of the cost of care in America...
...book, By Way of Deception, was co-written by Victor Ostrovsky, 40, who holds dual Canadian and Israeli citizenship and became a Mossad agent in the 1980s, and Claire Hoy, 50, a Canadian journalist. The Canadian-born Ostrovsky, who grew up in Israel and now works in Ottawa as an artist, sold the manuscript to Toronto's Stoddart Publishing, which planned to release the book Oct. 4. But two weeks ago, claiming the book contained information that "could have dire consequences for many people," Israeli officials won a temporary injunction in Canada against release of the book's contents. Ostrovsky...
Worse yet, the phenomenon is all too typical. The academic isolation of first-year students is part of a larger Harvard trend of exclusion and second-class citizenship of its newest members. By limiting first-year students to the intellectual airiness of big Core classes and learning-by-assembly line introductory department courses, Harvard immediately alienates students from academic curiousity...
...isolation, fanned but not originated by Saddam Hussein, has come as a salutary shock to their rulers. Some may be realizing too that it is unhealthy for as much as 60% of their populations to be composed of foreign workers (Palestinians, Pakistanis, Egyptians, Filipinos) who are excluded from citizenship or any other role in public life. They may even feel obliged to broaden the participation of their own citizens in government and politics...
Jacoby spoke of Radcliffe president Linda S. Wilson's vision of "dual citizenship" for women students at Harvard and Radcliffe...