Word: civile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME staff member since 1972, White has specialized in stories about the developing nations of the Third World since studying that subject as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard two years ago. After writing about the civil war in Rhodesia and the revolutions in Iran and Nicaragua, he found Mexico's relative political stability "a refreshing change." The roots of revolution, he says, have long been there- "high levels of unemployment, explosive population growth and a harshly inequitable distribution of wealth. Yet there hasn't been a revolution in Mexico since 1917. It's hard to figure...
...most part, the play is a reenactment of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Remember them? They were about secession...and slavery...and union...and--you know--all those Civil War topics. From the tri-colored jumble that dominates the stage to periodic bursts of off-pitch folk singing, The Rivalry shrieks Americana. It is not a pleasant sound...
There are two things to remember about the new proposals. The first is the portion requiring universities "to expend equal average per capita amouts of money for male and female participants." Confused? So was I. And when I asked Joe Mathis, spokesman in HEW's Office of Civil Rights, to tell me what was going on, he told me it means "proportionately equal average per capita spending." In English, that means that if Harvard spends $300,000 for its athletic program involving 300 men, it must also spend $150,000 for an athletic program involving 150 women...
Some people say yes. Like the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which recently reversed itself on the matter. Include all expenditure that men's and women's programs get equal treatment...
...committed by men, not abstract entities" would therefore open legions of scientists, bureaucrats and others to prosecution. The more practical converse of his view is that citizens who withhold taxes, trespass on reactor sites or otherwise resist nuclear power are entitled to present juries with the reasons for their civil disobedience--a line of defense judges disallow...