Word: explaining
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...Department is routed through a newly created Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. That unit is headed by Assistant Secretary of State Patricia Derian, 49, a combative and articulate civil rights activist from Mississippi. Derian has traveled to 15 countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe to explain Administration policy and inspect local conditions. She and eight deputies make sure that the human rights performance of every would-be recipient of U.S. aid is taken into account before a grant, loan or sale is approved...
...continued to play themselves out. In addition, a peculiar French individualism, a distaste for resolving conflicts on a face-to-face basis, and the desire to turn to a higher authority to arbitrate disputes have also been inherited from the past. This French form of authority--which can also explain the dearth of intermediary associations between the individual and the state--has created its own built-in problems. The state is often isolated from the French citizens and has no conception of just how serious social divisions in the country are or how to go about solving them...
...strategy of going door-to-door is to explain to people exactly what PIRG is; if we contact them, they'll respond favourably," Babic said...
...first big splash ten years ago, as a body-painted bikini girl on the old Laugh-In show. Now Goldie Hawn has switched to basketball scrimmages with the Harlem Globetrotters. "Playing with these guys, you've got to keep a stiff elbow and a stiff upper lip," explained the 5-ft. 6-in. Hawn, who taped the meeting for her March 1 TV special on CBS. More elbow and less lip might have worked better. Against the Globetrotters, Goldie came up short. ∙ During a vacation trip to Argentina last summer, Albuquerque Mayor David Rusk (son of former Secretary...
...discussing the Core proposal either in terms of requirements or of abstract philosophy leaves the most important educational questions unanswered. High sounding phrases about the values of Western culture do not explain why the liberal arts tradition has decayed, or why specialization has grown to dominate academic life. An examination of the history of liberal education at Harvard suggests that the liberal arts ideal may be threatened by social and educational trends which a core curriculum alone would be powerless to reverse...