Word: denialism
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...held so far by the memorial commission and the Roosevelt family. "This is about Roosevelt's being President," he says. "He did not wish to appear before the people as disabled. This makes him out to be who he wanted to be. To do otherwise would be a historical denial of how he felt...
Most scholars and the international community recognize some standards of legitimacy in secessionist claims: that claimants must be a `self-determining entity' with clear territorial bounds; that among this group, there must a clearly-expressed and incontestable will to secede for reasons of neo-colonial exploitation, denial of fundamental human rights, or functional subjugation or disenfranchisement; and that the new state must earn international recognition. The case of Quebec fulfills none of these criteria...
...oppressed within Canada. Secessions are recognized in the modern era when a people desire fundamental rights and freedoms denied to them. For a nation which the United Nations repeatedly singles out as the best place in the world to live, any such claim of oppression or denial of rights is ridiculous...
...policy: black or Mexican-American applicants would now be considered by a separate committee and admitted under lower standards than those required of whites. After four white students were rejected in 1992, they brought suit. Last year a federal judge ruled that the two-track system was an unconstitutional denial of equal protection. Because the judge did not order the law school to admit them, the students have appealed the ruling. Meanwhile, the university has scrapped the two-committee system...
...another setback for U.S.-China relations, a U.S. State Department report claimed that China made no progress on human rights in 1994. The report called China an ``authoritarian'' state and pointedly detailed such abuses as mistreatment of dissidents, denial of fair trials, harassment of journalists and forced labor...