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...America's? Don't ask. Unlike Singapore, though, the U.S. today is a nation in search of a common culture, trying to be a universal society that assimilates the traditions of people from all over the world. Efforts to safeguard minority as well as individual rights have produced, as Lee charges, a gridlock in the justice system. America is not the pandemonium portrayed in the shock-addicted mass media. But its troubles stem more from the decay of family life than from any government failures. Few societies can afford to look on complacently. As travel eases and cultures intermix...
...anticipate recommendations from the task force on how to safeguard against [a repetition of such experiments]," Campbell said...
...forces assigned to safeguard the convoys complain bitterly over the gap between their task of assuring free passage through a raging factional war zone and the means provided to achieve it. With only 13,000 troops on the ground and no air cover, "our job is becoming impossible," said Belgian General Francis Briquemont just after he asked to leave his post as commander of Bosnia six months early. The overall chief of the U.N. forces, French General Jean Cot, has been relieved of his job after quarreling publicly with Boutros-Ghali over his right to call in air strikes when...
Some users are responsible enough to remember to log out every time they finish an e-mail session. But they might not be cautious enough to safeguard their passwords. Giving away your e-mail account password is like telling someone your PAC. The possible consequences are easy to imagine...
America is justifiably proud of the many rights it has made fundamental for its citizens. But no right is as fundamental as the right to a safety. At its most basic level, society is intended to safeguard its members from the chaos of the state of nature. But can life in many urban areas really be described as anything other than "nasty, brutish and short?" In this context, it is hardly surprising that a whole segment of the population feels disconnected from society, a society that cannot or will not protect them...