Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This country has serious problems--the gap between rich and poor has been increasing rapidly for the past 20 years and shows no signs of slowing--and we are the ones with the skills to fix them. This summer I worked at the civil rights division of the United States Department of Education. Based on my experience there, all your perceptions of the public sector are probably right. Bureaucratic regulations are limitless, and many of those in government posts are neither hard-working nor ambitious. These are not the people we want working on some of our most important problems...
...pressures are somewhat different for students interested in spending a summer working with the Legal Aid Society or the American Civil Liberties Union...
...report, entitled "The Perpetuation of Prejudice in Reporting on Gays and Lesbians," states that it explores the "practice of journalistic standards over the past half-century on one of the most challenging subjects in contemporary America: the rise of gays and lesbians and their demand for civil rights...
...rest of the exhibit shows scraps of writing exercises by Mittani students, contracts between shepherds, court records from civil cases, stone weights, beaded jewelry, ritual objects and a heck of a lot of broken plates. It's a neat display. The work that went into it is impressive. It's exciting to know that we can learn such things about lives so distant from our own. But if you're looking for the lessons of history, the Semitic Museum's message might not be one you'd expect...
...made unstable by U.S. sanctions. Should the bill pass the upper house of parliament, it will grant unrestricted power for the state to enforce Islamic law, rolling back what meager secular checks currently exist. The bottom line, according to Pakistani analyst Paula Newberg, will be a severe reduction in civil liberties (i.e. freedom...