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...political victory like Nasser's in & 1967. This last, apparently quite real, possibility confirms a Bedouin proverb: "A jackal is a lion in his own neighborhood." It is "increasingly obvious," says Ajami, that "Saddam sees himself as the avenger of the Arab nation, history's instrument to redress the slights visited on Arabs for milleniums...
...generally for more research into the still mysterious roots of breast cancer. They point out that the U.S. government spends only $77 million a year investigating ways to prevent the illness, against $648 billion on heart- disease prevention. Last week Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio sought to redress the shortfall by introducing a bill that would add $25 million to the NIH budget expressly for basic research on breast cancer. Meanwhile the National Women's Health Network, a lobbying group in Washington, continues to press for federal funding of studies on the effects of diet...
Blind casting is a relative ideal; it is a corrective measure. To pretend that the bias that infused drama did not infuse society is at best idiotic and at worst malicious. We cross-cast now to redress certain cultural greivances, but we should never forget how grave those greivances are. If a director casts an Asian-American as a Prince Hamlet, that still does not soothe the stinging reality that the West never did, indeed, never could, envision an Asian protagonist. Because so many roles are scripted for the social majority as acknowledged by our culture, roles scripted for Asian...
...write to you now seeking not redress for the injuries done me, for my life as a brass player and friend of children has been shattered beyond repair, but rather to protect future tubists from wrongful harm at your hands. David Dobson '91 Tubist Harvard University Band...
Culminating decades of lobbying by Japanese-Americans to redress the pain and blot caused by the unjustified imprisonments, the bittersweet event commenced a race against time to reimburse, over the next three years, the 65,000 victims who remain alive. The $1.25 billion Civil Liberties Act of 1988, funded by Congress only this year, authorizes a $20,000 payment to every man, woman and child who suffered as a result of the internment policy and was still alive at the time the law was passed...