Word: parliamentã
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...civil marriage in the world. While a gay pride parade takes place in Tel Aviv, gays are executed in Egypt. Under Israeli law, all citizens are equal and enjoy freedom of religion. Every citizen in Israel has the right to vote, and there are numerous Arabs in the Israeli parliament??Israel is in fact one of the only places in the Middle East where Muslim women can vote. On the other hand, the Jordanian government has recently revoked the citizenship of nearly 3,000 Palestinian Jordanians to nothing but silence from the Obama administration. In the meantime...
...love with the beautiful Phyllis (Anna Ward), the ward of the Lord Chancellor (Matthew C. Stone ’11). But the Lord Chancellor will not consent to their marriage because he, as well as many in the House of Peers—a satirical portrayal of British Parliament??are in love with Phyllis. After the fairy queen (Meghan D. McLoughlin ’09) pardons Iolanthe for her crime, Strephon appeals to his mother for help in gaining Phyllis’ hand. The situation and the complications that follow provide plenty of fertile ground for satire...
...ensuing question-and-answer session, President Kagame addressed topics ranging from Rwanda’s female-majority parliament??the first in the world—to Chinese and Indian investments in Africa...
...Iranian parliament??s resolution uses the word “terrorist” rather liberally and, given conventional definitions, incorrectly. But U.S. lawmakers should think twice about condemning this propagandist political move. The American government, in conducting its “war on terror” is no stranger to semantic sleights of hand, displaying a tendency to label (or mislabel) just as egregiously as the Iranian parliament...
...brought with them a theory of exile that originally developed in medieval England from plague prevention techniques. Every few years, the citizens of certain locales would determine the most dangerous politician and exile them for a few years to an isolated building—in England “Parliament?? and in the colonies “legislatures”—in a remote location where politicians couldn’t hurt society and would survive off government pensions supplemented by periodic begging for funds. However, despite these 13 leper-colony-like areas, America couldn?...