Word: freedom
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...With her went the freedom to lie in and to wear what she likes. And though she's only four, a subtler, if more profound freedom has begun eroding, too: the freedom to mix with people from other backgrounds. She's headed off to school, in her red-checkered uniform, with the kids of middle-class Londoners, "people like us." We pay fees, but low ones, so the school tends to attract parents in the media, the public sector and small businesses. Our local state schools were too rough, too crowded or too religious, and the school where...
Tribe gave several examples of the importance and relevance of analyzing the Constitution, including a recent report uncovering a Bush administration memorandum that used the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act to condone federal spending on religious organizations that practiced discrimination...
...suffering of the people of Zimbabwe and the collapse of the economy as a result of decades of dictatorship, corruption and mismanagement. However, we are conscious that the people of Zimbabwe will not accept window-dressing and an empty politcal settlement that will not guarantee food, jobs, medicines, freedom and prosperity." But Mugabe appears to have other ideas about what the people of Zimbabwe, and their neighbors, will be prepared to accept...
...race for the Presidency pushes towards that fateful November Tuesday, many of us continue to be concerned about our country’s place in today’s world. “The Freedom Agenda: Why America Should Spread Democracy (Just Not The Way George Bush Did),” journalist James Traub’s pointed study of America’s attempts to promote democracy abroad and the damage those attempts have done to our image, could not have come at a better time.Traub takes the reader through the history of America’s foreign expansion...
Kennedy is a professor of history at Stanford University and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression...