Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principal speech at this year's Commencement Exercises, Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir P. Bhutto '73 called for the formation of an association of democratic nations to protect human rights and free elections worldwide...
Although Bhutto said she recognized that not every country could be organized around the same specific governmental procedures, she listed two principles as fundamental to democracy--open elections at regular intervals and respect for fundamental human rights...
...York City about 30 people have engaged in a symbolic hunger strike across the street from the United Nations. They were demanding U.N. condemnation of the crackdown in Beijing and the dispatch of medical workers and human-rights observers to China. Though many of the students in the U.S. are children of Communist Party members, and some are members themselves, the army's brutality has soured them on the party's monopolistic rule. "The only way to save the country is to go to a multiparty system," says John Shao, a student at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University...
Anyone can take pleasure in the matching of Keaton and Nicholson, their dueling eyebrows poised like crossed swords. And Keaton does locate the troubled human inside Batman's armature. He is amusingly awkward wrestling with the threat that Vicki's inquisitive love represents. He knows the world is not quite worth saving, and yet, "It's just something I have to do," he says, "because nobody else can." Same with Nicholson. Who else could play the Joker? He has a patent on satanic majesty. His performance is high, soaring, gamy. He is as good, and as evil, as the film...
...dilemma has become as familiar as it is painful. The U.S., as George Bush put it last week, "must stand wherever, in whatever country, universally for human rights." But it also has an interest in maintaining ties to regimes that occupy vital strategic positions. Never, though, has the U.S. faced that dilemma on the scale posed by today's China: the world's most populous nation, an important counterweight to the Soviet Union, until recently a force for stability in Asia and now a regime guilty of a massacre of its own people that has enraged Americans far more than...