Word: meaningfulness
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But memories cannot be painted over so easily. The day of the massacre, Guinea's broad-based opposition movement - called Forces Vives, literally meaning Forces Alive, and made up of political parties, labor unions and civil society groups - drew tens of thousands of supporters to a rally in the stadium...
For many, last month's attack on a U.N. guesthouse was the final straw. Not because suddenly, as foreigners, we felt ourselves to be targets. No, it was the decision to pull all U.N. staff out of their private guesthouses and force them to live in massive walled-off compounds...
"The Office of Personnel Management shall cease at once its interference with the jurisdiction of this tribunal," wrote Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. He gave the Administration 30 days to permit Karen Golinski, a lawyer employed by the Ninth Circuit, to...
Kozinski's unusual and bluntly worded Golinski order comes 10 months after the judge, acting in his capacity as administrator in an employee dispute resolution, determined that the federal Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts had erred in rejecting Golinski's inclusion of her wife on her insurance election form...
However, despite Camus' early years as a communist and long dedication to fighting imperialism, his later rejection of totalitarianism of all kinds - and denunciation of Soviet oppression that ran him afoul of contemporaries like Jean-Paul Sartre - don't exactly make him a perfect icon of the left, says Cusset...