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...best educated members of the community to escape service. The disadvantages of a narrow jury pool that has been worked upon by lawyers determined to seat the least qualified members is evident from Adler's account of the trial of Imelda Marcos, the wife of deposed Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. In 1990 she faced charges in a New York City court of transferring Philippine government money to American banks to finance shopping sprees in the U.S. that bought hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate and jewelry for herself and her husband. By the time the lawyers were done...
This would be a very noble gesture on the part of the United States, if it were the real reason. In fact, however, the U.S. has befriended many dictators in the interest of national security--Ferdinand Marcos, Daniel Ortega, and Saddam Hussein to name only a few--and security objectives have almost always taken precedence over even the most egregious violations of human liberty. Castro is a bad man, but he is hardly the worst, and he would not have received such strong treatment from the U.S. if there had been no threat of a Soviet military presence in Cuba...
...election drove a wedge between Terreblanche and his political ally, Afrikaner Volksfront leader Ferdinand Hartzenberg, and the supporters of former South African Defense Force chief Constand Viljoen. All three men want an Afrikaner state, or volkstaat, but Terreblanche and Hartzenberg believe it can be achieved only by the gun. Viljoen thinks he can persuade the government to grant Afrikaners their own piece of the country. In March he formed the Freedom Front Party and registered to participate in the elections. If he wins support, as expected, from more than half the estimated 1 million conservative white voters, it will prove...
Local implications have long had global effects. (Remember Archduke Ferdinand? Remember the Boston Massacre?) And organized violence is also no newcomer to the "contemporary world." (Remember the Barbary Pirates? How about Al Capone...
...last three or four decades of the 20th century has had profound consequences, to be sure. But in relative terms, it is no match for the waves that came ashore during the 19th. Between Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, more than 30 million Europeans left their homelands -- some involuntarily -- to settle in the U.S. It was by far the greatest mass movement in human history. The influx continues, in ever greater variety. For people in search of better lives, America remains the ultimate lure...