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Meanwhile, Indian military leaders were pondering why things had gone so wrong in their rough equivalent of America's debacle in Viet Nam. Invited into Sri Lanka by then President J.R. Jayewardene, the Indian army's original mission was to collect arms from Tamil militants, who had been trained and equipped by India in the first place. In exchange, Jayewardene promised that the 2 million Tamils, who have suffered discrimination at the hands of the majority Sinhalese (11.8 million), would be given more autonomy over a newly created Northeastern province, where they predominate. But when the Tigers refused to give...
...some conspiracy of ours to foul up that sound. In the future, corporations are going to conclude that it just doesn't pay to take responsibility and make restitution. Instead companies will say, "Let everyone else clean it up and sue us and see if they can collect...
...school for the gifted when her librarian father was accused of being a "rightist." She confesses to Lord that her resentment hardened into a "hate so unnatural that it could sever the bond between a loving father and a loving child." Not until she was sent to collect her father's ashes from the prison where he died did she come to see that it was the regime, not her father, that was the enemy. "Your father's ears were torn off," a prison official confided to her, giving the lie to the explanation that the death was a suicide...
During the conquest of Canaan, cities were routinely destroyed under the principle of Herem, in which every person, every animal and every piece of property was annihilated. This practice was viewed in a noble light because it removed from the attackers' minds any temptation to collect spoils, thus permitting divine command to be their sole motivation. Nevertheless, Herem as a practice flies in the face of our notions of "just war" and is difficult to accept even if one views it as the word...
...this technique, a few minutes before class ends students respond anonymously to two questions: "What is the primary point you learned in class today?" and "What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?" Light said that this "one minute paper" forces students to collect their thoughts at the end of class and to synthesize the material they have learned that...