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...demand shelter for the homeless and those who support the right of the homeless to refuse shelter; those who claim rights for fetuses and those who want the right to make their own choice for abortion; those who want their teenagers taught to use condoms and those who insist on the right to keep their kids ignorant of such things; campus hoodlums who insult their fellow students and college administrators who promulgate censorious "rules of conduct" to prevent their students from giving offense to this or that ethnic group, sexual preference, or body type. Their "rights" give their claims -- whatever...
Where do these rights come from? Some may have trouble with the concept of a divine creator. Others may find it overly metaphysical to insist that every human being has these rights in a world where most people are patently unfree to exercise them. But few can doubt that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are what a civilized society ought to strive to provide its members. As the Declaration says, that is the reason "Governments are instituted." It is "self-evident." That's good enough...
...agreed to attend the peace conference before Baker left Moscow. The Israeli leader's acquiescence was prompted in part by a Soviet promise to re-establish diplomatic relations, which were severed in 1967, if the talks get under way. Baker also assured him that the U.S. would not insist that Palestinians unacceptable to Shamir be included in the discussions...
...cheerily crass Boer, Tromp Kramer, and his wily "kaffir" partner, Mickey Zondi, were introduced in The Steam Pig, published in 1971. Their teamwork, affectionate but circumscribed, full of macho blarney and teasing but also tinged with racial irony, subtly evoked the quirky diplomacy of a society where whites insist on ruling but all parties know that cannot happen without black help. The six succeeding novels brought the relationship into the mid- 1980s and showed each man becoming gradually more sophisticated about the other's world, as in life the barriers have slowly fallen between South Africa's ruling elite...
Though Clifford and First American president Robert Altman insist that their foreign partners kept hands off First American, the auditors said B.C.C.I. used the U.S. firm's stock as an essential part of many fraudulent deals. B.C.C.I., said Price Waterhouse, covertly acquired the stock of First American, code-named WXYZ in the report, through "prominent Middle Eastern individuals" who thus were merely nominal -- or "nominee" -- owners. B.C.C.I. then used First American shares as collateral for sham loans that produced phony income. Clifford, meanwhile, regularly briefed Abedi and Kamal Adham, a major B.C.C.I. shareholder from Saudi Arabia, on First American...