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...University had originally planned to build a hotel roughly twice the size of the one currently under construction, but scaled back its design to conform with the new zoning...
...feared at home, he is equally ruthless in preserving his power. He is omnipresent, his face, sometimes several feet high, adorning every city block. His picture hangs in every office, every shop, even most private homes, lest the dreaded secret police pay a call. Those who don't conform pay. A senior general once warned him, according to an Iraqi informant, that an attack he had ordered would lead to very high casualties. Saddam invited the general into the next room to discuss the matter. After the door closed behind them, a shot rang out. Saddam returned alone, stuffing...
Souter uses this, too, to show that Holmes'theory is internally consistent. Holmes believes,Souter deduces, that the law must conform to thewants of the strongest in society in order tosucceed. Since in the real world these lucky turnof events for the strongest will not necessarilybe seen by all as favoring everyone's interests,Souter says, morality and legality again need haveno connection in Holmes' view...
However refreshing the new honesty may be, it does not repair the damage done by decades of dogmatic rigidity. Science and other fact-based disciplines largely escaped politicalization under communism, but economics and the social sciences were systematically reshaped to conform to Marxist principles. Now that ideology no longer governs how such subjects as history and philosophy are taught, professors are unsure what to tell their students -- or even what the truth is. "They are at square one," says Sarah Lawrence president Alice Ilchman, who visited the Comenius Institute of Education in Prague earlier this year. "They want to know...
Traditionalists increasingly distinguish between a "multiracial" society, which they say would be fine, and a "multicultural" society, which they deplore. They argue that every society needs a universally accepted set of values and that new arrivals should therefore be pressured to conform to the mentality on which U.S. prosperity and freedom were built. Says Allan Bloom, author of the best-selling The Closing of the American Mind: "Obviously, the future of America can't be sustained if people keep only to their own ways and remain perpetual outsiders. The society has got to turn them into Americans. There are natural...