Word: civilizations
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Without randomization we would see a more segregated House system, but there is one crucial difference between this type of segregation and pre-Civil Rights segregation. That difference is one of power. The segregation that revolutionaries of the 1960s sought to put an end to was based on exclusion from resources, motivated by the desire to maintain power over another group. To this end, a significant number of white Americans used their power to deny black people the freedom to choose where they went to school, what jobs they held and where they lived...
...response, Civil Rights activists looked not to integrate America, but rather to counterbalance power differentials and thereby give all people the right to choose the course of their own lives. Legislation like the Fair Housing Act of 1965 didn't mandate that black people must move into all white areas and integrate them. Rather, it was an attempt to end unfair and discriminatory practices so that if black people chose to move into a white neighborhood, they could do so in peace...
...said, we fall back on the old standard: "that's interesting, say more about that." Johnny replies, "which part, the part where I used Gramsci to explain the origins of the American Revolution, or the part where I employed a cliometric model of my own design to prove the Civil War had no impact on American society?" At this point, we usually show a movie...
...White House has already invoked the separate notion of Executive privilege in an attempt to screen aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal from Starr. Extending a similar privilege to the Secret Service would be novel, says Burt Neuborne, former legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, but not unreasonable. "It has all the hallmarks of other privileges, such as the marital and clergy privileges. Without it, you run the risk of injuring what is a tremendously important relationship." Not everybody is convinced. "The presidency comes with a lot of perks, but this one is just over the top," says...
...they talk among themselves of a "campaign" to burnish Mary's public image, insist that Steve was having affairs and abusing Mary, mostly verbally but with an occasional shove. (Steve Letourneau and his lawyer turned down several interview requests.) It got to the point that they were barely civil. Therapist Moore says Mary remembered that when she told Steve about her father's cancer, he growled, "What do you want...