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...being questioned, not their necessity. Almost no one disputes the need for land reform. To do so is all but pointless anyway—the majority of white farmers have been forced off their land and many have fled the country. Additionally, the land redistribution is not a direct redress of colonial wrongs as the government would have us believe, since most seized farms were not owned by colonialists. Eighty percent of commercial farms have changed hands privately, in a legal and government-approved fashion, since independence in 1980, further calling into question the legality of Mugabe?...
...must protect and promote the safety of children, respond with compassion to those who have been harmed, take action to redress the wrongs, and extend God’s healing love to all those injured,” said the report, which was released on Monday...
...attacks left both countries searching for a response. India has, in a sense, given the militants cover to claim their motive as redress for earlier mistreatment, without mentioning Kashmir. New Delhi insisted this was a terrorist canard?the latest investigations suggest the temple assailants, both Pakistani, had probably arrived by train from Jammu and Kashmir that same afternoon?but it still clouds the picture of the country's enemies and leaves the door open to additional attacks, and potential retaliation. Furthermore, it puts Vajpayee in an increasingly tight spot between the international community and the hard-core elements...
...course, “democracy” did lose something that day—the luster of this ideal was somehow dulled, and Americans were incensed. Our government has responded in its own institutional way, stripping intelligence of its Cold War accoutrements, demanding redress between the riven CIA and FBI, and creating a new Department of Homeland Security...
...past two years, advocacy groups in a dozen cities have taken up the cause, and the N.A.A.C.P. called on every state to submit a plan to redress discipline and other educational inequities by May 10. Last week the group announced that it would file civil rights complaints against the 22 states that missed the deadline. Meanwhile, legislators in Maryland and Rhode Island have set up task forces to study school discipline. In April, under a new state law, Ohio released suspension data broken down by race for each of its school districts. Earlier this month the Rev. Jesse Jackson addressed...