Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tomas's life is undermined, meanwhile, by an article he wrote on Oedipus. Noting that Oedipus punished himself for a crime he did not commit, Tomas concludes that the political regime of his country, even if it did not intend to commit atrocities, should accept responsibility for what if has wound up doing. This article costs him his job as a surgeon; he descends to being a driver for a collective farm. By this time he is weak enough for Tereza's taste; she is happy with the final condition of her life with...
This view of women is a particular kind of speech--an incitement to commit violence against women. The message could not be much clearer if there were posters all around campus proclaiming that sexual violence against women is "fun," "exciting" and "okay." This is the kind of speech which our Constitution has never protected without qualification (direct incitement to criminal violence). The courts have upheld other limitations of speech where direct harm of this kind (or actually, much less direct harm) has been shown. The question, as Catherine MacKinnon (an associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota...
...contends, the U.S. not only backs the wrong side-"repression and corruption and privilege"-but "inevitably the losing side." Hart charges that Mondale was slow to turn against the Viet Nam War and has yet to learn its lessons. A leader, said Hart, must know "not only where to commit your forces but where not to commit your forces...
...other in proclaiming undying fealty to Israel. Hart was quicker to demand the withdrawal of Marines from Lebanon, although how much quicker remains a matter of dispute. Their greatest and most revealing differences in the Middle East come over Persian Gulf oil. Mondale says he would be willing to commit U.S. ground troops to keep it flowing; Hart says he would not. At the debate, Mondale said that the U.S. must "make certain that the American interest in stability and keeping the area out of the reach of the Soviet Union is kept in mind by the world." Hart allowed...
...next day, July 6, in response to press reports from Jerusalem, Reagan announced that he had agreed to commit U.S. troops to a peace-keeping force in Lebanon. With this ill-conceived announcement, attention was diverted for several vital days from the peace effort and focused instead on the meaning of committing American troops. Superpower rivalry was reawakened. The breach between Syria and the Soviet Union was mended by huge new shipments of Soviet arms to Syria; Syria announced that under present circumstances, it could not accept the P.L.O.; the P.L.O. reneged on its agreement to withdraw from Lebanon...