Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gaining power. But connivance may. Stanislaw Kabbelski, a local police chief and, later, minister in a provisional Belorussian Cabinet, conspires in the deaths of strangers, then acquaintances, then family friends. His children witness the double-dealing and slaughter, committed by Germans and by Russian-sponsored Belorussian insurgents with equal abandon. Long before adolescence, the Kabbelski children are plunged into a world void of moral order. Kabbelski's soul-destroying deals are, moreover, made in vain: abandoned by the Germans, who are losing, and cheated by fellow Belorussians, who are maneuvering for postwar advantage, he becomes a fugitive. The family breaks...
...thaw in the past year, the U.S. still considers itself the first among superpowers in Peking. That assumption got a jolt last week when an article in the Chinese journal Red Flag attacked U.S. foreign policy and declared that China may embark on a policy of maintaining an "equal distance" from the two superpowers...
...warmer relations with the U.S. The Red Flag article, however, was reprinted last week in the English-language China Daily, widely regarded as one of Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping's main conduits for sending messages to Western powers. "Anyone reading that article would think that the U.S. is an equal threat to them and to world peace," said one dismayed Western diplomat. Whatever the reasons, Peking seemed to be putting the U.S. on notice that its most-favored-superpower status cannot be taken for granted...
...founding notion behind liberal feminism, that women should have the right to establish their own lifestyles and have an equal say in matrimonial affairs, won out long ago. Though this status quo has been attacked from the right, there is no sign that Americans are any less supportive of women's rights than they were ten years...
...feminist fascists, first of all, want gender purity. Women must shake off the ideologies and mores of masculine kultur. Secondly, they yearn for "A Place in the Sun," a separate but equal set of values for women. Women must be respected not just as equal persons, but simply and existentially for being women. Women must be represented and treated positively. Here, pornography is an obvious target. Ideally, men should look past a women's potential for a night of funzies, to the real qualities that make a woman a woman...