Word: demanding
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...validity based on false claims about what makes that group a group. If one were to look only at Mansfield's remarks, the notion of civil rights for homosexuals would indeed sound laughable after all, why should a collection of irresponsible thespians, bon-mot formulators and civilization-haters demand legal protection because of an identity based on these very traits? They function usefully, Mansfield generously concedes, as society's sideshow freaks, but that's simply not a good enough reason to assure their civil rights...
...peril; the Colorado amendment's attempt to proscribe homosexuals from state protection is the real threat to civilization. Mansfield's evaluation of the worth of gay lives is moronic, but more crucially, it's irrelevant to the issue of whether they should be protected as citizens. Homosexuals do not demand rights based on their contributions to anything--the arts, a cocktail party or civilization. They base their demands on the same weathered premise as everyone else: a free society's commitment to giving equal protection to its members...
...Rose said he would not demand an apologyfrom the Li brothers. And Vincent Li saidyesterday he would not issue an apology tostudents...
Employed or not, Russia's consumers are screaming that prices on basics are too high, and they are right. The problem is that with government funds and workers concentrated in state-controlled industries, production of high- quality civilian goods has not caught up with demand. Nor is it likely to until the factories, farms and retail outlets are privatized -- a process that will take years. Only about 20% of workers are employed in the private sector, and there is evidence most people are not even convinced that privatization is a good idea. In a study by the Russian Center...
...influence overall security policy, their strongest concerns % are at home. The army has been humiliated by its loss of status, the poor housing provided for its officers returning from service in Eastern Europe and the Baltics, and a general decline in its living standards. So it will demand improvements. And it will also insist on a freer hand in dealing with security threats along Russia's borders with the newly independent republics and within Russia itself. "The generals," says Michael Dewar, deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, "see nothing but instability inside Russia...