Word: foundedness
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He began life in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, discovered aspects of the "Socialist dream" in adolescence and taught philosophy at New York University for more than four decades. There, as in such books as The Hero in History, The Paradoxes of Freedom and Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense of...
Steenson, the latest victim of a feud that has left ten people dead, was apparently murdered by rival INLA members. Founded in 1975 as an offshoot of the Irish Republican Army, the INLA began to be ripped apart by a power struggle late last year. With no end in sight...
On an adjacent hill to Dumbarton Oaks sits a spartan, classical one-story structure known as The Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies. The institution was founded in 1961 with a grant from the Old Dominion Foundation to provide a locus for studies in the Classical Greek tradition, reversing what...
In its decision last week, the court ruled 6 to 3 that the INS standard was more onerous than Congress had intended when it drafted the law. Justice John Paul Stevens, for the majority, said that to be considered eligible for asylum, refugees need only prove a "well-founded fear...
The case before the court involved Luz Marina Cardoza-Fonseca, 38, a Nicaraguan who now lives in Nevada. Cardoza-Fonseca unsuccessfully claimed before theINS that if forced to return, she would face torture because her brother is a former Sandinista who was imprisoned and tortured by his onetime comrades before...