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...course no individual then or now has ever been solely responsibility--after all. Boniface VII did declare that "every human creature" was "subject to Roman Pontiff." Although this edict has recently been ignored, popes do not have a very good record of taking the side of justice...
Still, Dunne doesn't mean that to be taken asan edict for the non-disabled establishment toneglect concerns for the visually impaired. Whileshe is quick to praise the many people who havegone out of their way to help her, she saysHarvard has been far from perfect in accommodatingall her needs...
...concept of shura (consultation) beyond the informal tradition of hearing petitions from private citizens. In an 83-article decree, he announced plans to establish a 60-member consultative council, and he also codified governmental protections of personal freedoms for 7 million subjects and 5 million foreign residents. Since the edict also affirmed the absolute authority of the monarch, it neither transforms Saudi Arabia into a model democracy nor positions Fahd as a regional pioneer. The Emir of Kuwait, for instance, has made a bolder pledge: to hold parliamentary elections next fall. Nonetheless, Fahd's decree represents a serious step toward...
...rolls in an effort to close a projected $1 billion budget gap. But Engler's "solution" has produced more chaos than cure. Michigan's unemployment rate is greater than 9%, and even highly qualified workers are finding it hard to get a job. In the wake of Engler's edict, thousands of welfare recipients have lost their apartments; seven people who were disqualified from receiving welfare have died from exposure this winter...
...single squeeze of the trigger for every round discharged. In 1989, two months after a deranged man with a semiautomatic murdered five children at a Stockton, Calif., elementary school, President Bush was persuaded to place a ban on the importation of all such foreign-made weapons. But the edict was virtually meaningless, since the vast majority of "semis" purchased in the U.S. are manufactured at home...