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...TIER SYSTEM'' THAT MANY EXPERTS ON SOCIAL Security recommend for the U.S. was pioneered in Chile. Having passed through years of military dictatorship before becoming a democracy, that country isn't normally regarded as a showcase of social policy. Yet its 14-year-old retirement system is being adopted by a number of other nations, including Argentina, Australia and Sweden, that have graying populations and overburdened pension plans. The enforced savings and investment features of the new system are already credited with one remarkable outcome: the net worth of the average Chilean--$21,000--is almost four times the worker...
...AMAZING THAT YOUR ARTICLE ABOUT Castro didn't mention the gross human-rights violations that have taken place during the 36 years of his dictatorship: the torture and execution of thousands of dissidents, as many as 5,000 political prisoners still in Cuban jails, and the organization, training and support of terrorists throughout Latin America in the 1960s and '70s. The U.S. embargo has solid moral grounds...
...even sympathize with an enemy [Essay, Feb. 20], Pico Iyer reveals both the implications and the presuppositions of the modern relativist view. It is no surprise that placing mercy over justice would lead a man to uphold someone like Soviet double agent Kim Philby, an operative of the bloodiest dictatorship in history, and receive no moral condemnation for it. What may not be obvious, though, is how the lack of moral integrity today stems from an intellectual failure, the epistemological humility that refuses to hold anything as certain. Greene's noted ambiguity and his writing of plays like...
Holton says the Chinese scientists had a "greathunger" for a scientific philosophy which wouldallow them to break away from their outdatedtexts. Holton says this hunger for new ideas isencouraging but fragile, since it can besuppressed at any moment by a dictatorship...
...Europe is taking root in the very soil on which the vast majority of the 6 million perished. The young are discovering their Jewish heritage. And they, in confirmation of the prophecy, are bringing Judaism back to the parents whose faith had been so ruthlessly stamped out by one dictatorship after another for a half-century...