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...article also states that "Israel proceeded to carry out one of the most stable transitions into democratic statehood...in January of 1949 [Israel] extend[ed] votes and citizenship rights equally to all, including its substantial Arab minority." Yet until after 1956, Palestinians living in Israel needed to obtain travel permits in order to leave their towns. In South Africa, this is known as apartheid. What kind of democracy discriminates against some of its people based on race...
Argentina's army chief of staff, General Mart?n Balza, admitted that the country's military dictatorship tortured and killed political opponents in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The military, he said, "employed illegitimate methods, including the suppression of life, to obtain information." The announcement, the first official confirmation of such abuses during the so-called Dirty War, follows the recent confessions by two former military men that they took part in secret "death flights," in which sedated but still living victims were thrown from aircraft into the Atlantic...
...Ph.D. is the highest academic degree which a scholar can obtain in any given field of study. And like all types of degrees, it is being awarded with greater frequency and being required of greater numbers of applicants to positions in industry, education and academia. The recent hiring of two new Assistant Deans of Freshmen, both with Ph.D.s, points to the pervasive standard for hiring practices which is fast becoming the norm...
REVIEWING YOUR CHART "CATALOG OF Terror,'' showing weapons that terrorists could use, I concluded that toxic biological and chemical materials, threatening instant injury and death, pose a far greater risk than radioactive materials. The latter are more difficult to obtain and deliver to a population in a dose strong enough to cause significant injury. If people had more accurate information about the relatively small risk from nuclear radiation, there would be less fear of it, and radiological materials could be removed from your catalog...
...with the novel by Franz Kafka of the same name. An unfinished work published posthumously, Kafka's The Trial concerns a man's confrontation with a bureaucracy he cannot understand. He is tried for an unspecified crime by an enigmatic legal authority and all of his efforts to obtain justice result in frustration and a loss of human dignity. In the end, he is stabbed to death. Some critics call it an allegory of the quest for divine justice. It is not comical...