Word: corruptedness
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Marcos has usurped the legislative powers of the National Assembly through the issuance of presidential decrees. He has destroyed the independence of the civil judiciary and corrupted the national Commission on Elections. The most recent presidential contest, held in July 1981, was so blatantly engineered for a Marcos victory that...
At week's end Gaddafi was still trying to find a way to make the formal summit take place. Failing that, he may attempt to organize an emergency O.A.U. meeting, probably in November, at which he could take over the chairmanship. Meanwhile the mercurial strongman contented himself with haranguing...
King Henry (Patrick Stewart) fears the reverse, that his scapegrace son has been corrupted by dissolute companions. He is depressed by the thought that when Hal ascends the throne, the realm will dissolve in chaos. Chaos abounds as it is. Scotland and Wales are in rebellion, and the noble families...
But Hegel justified the carnage in the name of freedom. Witnessing the bloodshed of World War I. Jakob is less sanguine. Arbitrariness in physics, the standard of order, reflects the emergent nationalism of bureaucrats and the social chaos such faceless patriotism creates. As classical physics becomes classical, the state wages...
Sontag, in other words, is correct in what she says But there is a lot left unsaid Which is a far cry from saying that there aren't sides to be taken it is entirely likely that El Salvador, should the revolution prevail, will be ruled by a L. Leninist...