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...Washington Supremes Rule on Race In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court narrowed the scope of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965 in part to increase the number of black officeholders. The Justices ruled that the act requires states to create new voting districts only when the new district will have a minority population greater than 50%. Dissenting Justices argued that even districts without such a majority are worth creating, because they encourage the election of minority candidates with the help of concentrated minority populations and so-called crossover white voters. Later this year, the court...
...trial of senior Khmer Rouge officials expressed "heartfelt sorrow" for the torture and killings of some 15,000 people at Tuol Sleng, the notorious prison over which he had presided. But 66-year-old Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, painted himself as a scapegoat for a regime whose rule caused an estimated 1.7 million deaths in the 1970s. If convicted, Duch faces a possible life sentence...
DIED His election in 1983 as President of Argentina ended eight years of military rule, a period during which thousands of proponents of democracy went missing. Raúl Alfonsín, 82, ordered trials of nine former militia leaders and jailed five...
...Many students concentrate in Government hoping to tackle questions like “What is justice?†or “Who should rule?†Unfortunately, their courses more often dissect queries like “Does Representative X follow the constituency’s preferences on policies A, B, and C?†That’s because many political scientists consider themselves solely scientists: They describe what is, not what should...
...point of significant pride, evidence that America's third-largest city has shed its image as a blue-collar also-ran to the more urbane coastal centers. And the city's mayor, Richard M. Daley, clearly views winning the Games as a capstone of his nearly two-decade rule. "The Olympics is the No. 1 showcase on the world circuit of mega events," says John R. Gold, professor of social sciences and law at Britain's Oxford Brookes University, and co-author of Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World's Games, 1896-2012. He adds, "Even...