Word: empowerment
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To Palestinians, perhaps the most persuasive defense of suicide bombings today is that they are working. If the goal is to empower the powerless and shake the foundation of Israeli society, the bombings have proved highly effective. Presumably the Palestinians would be happy to fight the Israelis conventionally, army against...
Ren Wanding was in prison the last time Beijing made a bid for the Olympic Games. That was 1993, and he was serving seven years for supporting the 1989 student demonstrations that ended in the disastrous Tiananmen Square massacre. There was no way he could support the bid, Ren recalls...
“Knowing everything one could possibly want to know about the word will empower people confronting the word in a negative context,” he said. “It’s a shame when somebody feels diminished in the presence of a word whose meaning...
The solution is to empower parents to make choices about their childen’s education. Why does our public system force the poor of our society to send their children to racially segregated and academically defunct schools? Given the opportunity, parents will make wise choices about where to educate...
Some people worry about public monies supporting private schools. But if families must foot the entire bill for private education themselves, then private schools become an opportunity available only to the privileged elite. As the Black Alliance for Educational Options likes to say, “School choice is widespread...