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...virtues of this singular insulation are acknowledged by even the government's critics: while superpower tensions have torn Indochina asunder, civil and incivil wars have haunted even such tiny neighbors as Sri Lanka, and booming Asian powers like Singapore and Japan have had to bear the costs of sudden prosperity, Burma has remained serenely on the geopolitical sidelines, at peace. Only once in recent years has it hit the head-lines: in October 1983, when North Korean terrorists planted a bomb in Rangoon that left four members of the visiting South Korean Cabinet dead. Of late, Burma has stepped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma: Locking Out the 20th Century | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...When I was growing up in Cambridge and duringhigh school years, minority students were nevertold about the importance of taking the civilservice exams," he says. "But there were numerouswhite kids who were encouraged to take it andlater on you would find they have positions incivil service...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: THE CITY | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...Wilkins was law clerk to SupremeCourt Justice Thurgood Marshall. Subsequently hewas an associate at the Washington trial law firmof Nussbaum, Owen and Webster, specializing incivil litigation...

Author: By Rajath Shourie, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Law Faculty Votes To Tenure Wilkins | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...evidence" of any harassment of Professor Richard Herrnstein. As the statement signed by over one hundred faculty members made clear, no one was alleging that any illegal harassment, of the sort that might lead to disciplinary action, had occurred. What has occurred, and what many of us regard as incivil conduct that goes well beyond the bounds of, and indeed inhibits, serious discourse, is the following...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF CIVILITY | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

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