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...imperatives arising from 30 years of social, medical and legal policies specifically designed to liberate patients from forced confinement. The development of effective drugs prompted states to begin the wholesale release of patients from hospitals. At the same time patient advocacy movements, citing stories of people left to languish for years in "snake pits," established an individual's right to refuse involuntary commitment or treatment...
...power when he pushed through martial law and placed many of his enemies under house arrest. To this day, the press is muzzled and the spreading of "black rumors" against the government is illegal. By the estimates of the U.S. State Department, close to 1,000 political prisoners still languish in the country's jails. "Chun has little popular support," allows one U.S. official. That fact was forcibly brought home by last year's national elections, in which the opposition New Korea Democratic Party (N.K.D.P.), formed only weeks before the voting, snared 102 seats in the 276-member National Assembly...
...state raised its minimun drinking age to 21, the College moved to ban underage drinking despite student cries that social life would languish...
Many students questioned why Harvard sent a report to every single student, instead of just to every suite. "Those who are interested don't need their personal copy," said Stuart M. Semmel '88 of Lowell House. "I'm sure that a lot of people are letting the reports languish on their shelves or in the garbage...
Augustynski was not engaging in hyperbole. Even by conservative estimates, over a million people have died as a result of the Soviet occupation, which began in December, 1980. An additional six to eight million have lost their homes. Four million refugees languish near starvation in Pakistan, perhaps two million in Iran, and another million or so on the outskirts of the capital, Kabul. Actual footage of battles and decimated villages brought the story to life, morbidly speaking, in brilliant color...