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When such ancient treasures are discovered in Guatemala and many other Latin American nations, they legally become part of the national heritage and cannot be taken from the country without official sanction. But to the stealthy diggers in the Guatemalan jungle, the law means less than a Mayan glyph. They are members of one of Latin America's oldest and least honorable professions-grave robbers and clandestine treasure hunters...
...little Irish group was discovering this hash, and we were into very sophisticated strings of long, comic invention because we were into this grass. And because our environment didn't sanction it, we were totally isolated with our experience and it was even more exciting creatively than...
...making money. Heaven forbid! He was successful because capitalism encouraged certain character traits that used to be admired and are now disdained as "bourgeois virtues." For decades, writes Kristol, "liberal capitalism has been living off the inherited cultural capital of the bourgeois era and has benefited from a moral sanction it no longer even claims. That legacy is now depleted, and the cultural environment has turned radically hostile...
...violent action may be a realistic alternative to institutional violence as the ultimate sanction of social systems, Gene Sharp, a research fellow for the Center for International Studies, told a group of about 40 people at Science Center B yesterday...
...flag of adversary relationship has flown over much valuable investigative reporting, but it also gives sanction to the increasingly truculent, bearbaiting questioning of officials and press spokesmen that has become one of Washington's major blood sports. A cynical posture in such reporting assumes all Government to be bad, all privacy to equal concealment and all explanations to amount to lies. The adversary relationship, most evident in rat-pack journalism, gives a false nobility to the second-rate and the lazy...