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With her political and personal security threatened from beginning to end, Elizabeth needed all her courage, cunning and caution to reign. She took the throne of a poor, isolated and deeply humiliated country. As a Queen, she faced special problems of marriage and succession, religious division, domestic discontent and foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 16th Century: Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

However, the WTO was not the proper target for much of the protesters' ire. The WTO is no sovereignty-gobbling monster but a small organization that arbitrates trade disputes based on rules already agreed to by its member nations; it does not write its own rules and impose them on...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Fiasco in Seattle | 12/8/1999 | See Source »

For two main reasons: student autonomy and student control. On the one hand, students can choose not to pay the council fee, and they can, through exercise of that option, voice any discontent they may feel about the way those funds are distributed. On the other hand, with the freedom...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis, | Title: Raise the Council Fee | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Well according to Kevin Smith, you had every right to be dissatisfied. His new film, Dogma, is the apotheosis of this Sunday School discontent and criticizes the stubborn doctrine of many churches. The film doesn't pretend to have all the answers to your Sunday School questions, but it does...

Author: By Nate P. Gray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jesus Saves, Dogma Scores on the Rebound | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

My current discontent may be an entirely personal failing, and Governor Bush's call for moral education may have been merely a tactical ploy to court soccer moms. Yet I cannot help but regret that my path through the American educational system has armed me with so much cynicism and...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: An Argument for Moral Education | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

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