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BEING a practical-minded nation, Americans and particularly American politicians have forgotten the theory behind republican institutions. They have forgotten that republican government is supposed to rest upon the consent of the governed, and, now that the people have been effectively cut off from the government and its doings, the government rests on grounds so shaky that the slightest shock could send the whole thing into...
...some illusions. The major powers [including the U.S.] apparently don't intend to commit their forces to the Middle East. The U.N. is an arena for waging conflicts, not an instrument for solving them. It cannot "guarantee" anybody's security or take a single step without Arab consent. Israel's guarantee must be its own strength as well as secure boundaries that permit her to absorb an attack without being destroyed...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who died four years ago at the age of 83, was by general consent one of the three grand masters of early modern architecture, along with Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Mies' pure, honed elegance, as seen everywhere in his works, from his famous Barcelona chair (1929) to his glass-curtain walls, has transformed the appearance of every major city on earth. No modern architect has been more widely (or in most cases more clumsily) imitated...
Efforts are being made to stop the calls, Sharaf said. "With the consent of students involved, we have installed some systems to deal with the problem," he explained. He declined to specify the nature of the devices...
...their original contours. Moreover, complains Louise Dunlap, coordinator of the Washington-based Coalition Against Strip Mining, the legislation fails 1) to protect Indian-reservation land above rich coal deposits; 2) to curb the power of coal companies that own mineral rights to strip-mine then" deposits without the written consent of a surface owner...