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...idea that inanimate artifacts may become a medium for energies of the past, and that in this way events and passions recur and prevail through time, is the key to a similar story, Juan Murana. The frail and senile widow of a famed bandit resurrects her "husband", in the form of his knife, to wreak vengence on an unjust landlord...
Substantive issues aside, there are broad methodological questions which arise in connection with the political and legal debates about investment policy. The arguments introduced are not tested against some eternal objective standard. Rather, political and legal positions do or do not prevail against the best argument that can be brought against them. The idea that there is an eternal political and legal order in which universities can be nothing but congeries of scholars and investors nothing but sharp-eyed speculators, is but a malicious puff of bourgeois ideology. Can it seriously be supposed that the same kind...
Siegel, speaking on behalf of the counsel for the tenants, said, "We're very confident we can win any appeal. We would prevail in both fact...
...justice to" his subject's indomitable courage to survive (in the words of one migrant wife: "The only thing we can decide, my daddy used to tell me, is whether we'll stay alive or whether we won't") to endure, and even, in some cases, to prevail against a fate of degradation and neglect. His work pries loose stereotypes by which we, in the position to affect relief, conveniently demean the poor and thereby free ourselves from guilt for their wretchedness...
...justice to" his subject's indomitable courage to survive (in the words of one migrant wife: "The only thing we can decide, my daddy used to tell me, is whether we'll stay alive or whether we won't") to endure, and even, in some cases, to prevail against a fate of degradation and neglect. His work pries loose stereotypes by which we, in the position to affect relief, conveniently demean the poor and thereby free ourselves from guilt for their wretchedness...