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...Speight has demanded that Fiji be ruled exclusively by indigenous Fijians, while the country's Indian community - the 49 percent of the 800,000 inhabitants whose ancestors were brought to Fiji by the British 100 years ago to pick sugar - must accept second-class citizenship. The gunman's toppling of the country's first ethnic-Indian leader appears to have captured the imagination of many indigenous Fijians, and prompted the Fijian army to seize power and nix the constitution. Still, Speight refuses to free his hostages until he and his cronies are given a direct role in ruling the country...
...Writing with the clarity of hindsight, I may have conveyed the impression we were unhappy with the status quo. Did we rail against the second-class status of women intelligent enough to attend the world's most prestigious university...
Making itself a standout amongst nations in Islamic worlds, Egypt amended its divorce laws last Wednesday and began to lift the veil of repression that has relegated women in Egypt to second-class status for centuries. Not only will a woman now be able to divorce her husband without his consent, she will also be able to garnish his wages if he is recalcitrant in providing support. A state fund has also been established to assist those whose husbands cannot be found. Perhaps as noteworthy as the reforms, though, is Egypt's proof that granting equal rights to women does...
Democratic principles require a compensatory accounting for those "missing" from the census, especially since many of them are members of marginalized groups. To settle for an inaccurate enumeration of the population is akin to relegating the uncounted to second-class citizenship. Without an effort to compensate for the difference, inevitable and expected statistical error becomes a concerted effort to ignore minorities and the poor when conducting the business of government...
...rock concert. If you do neither--and this is the case with about 200 million individuals of voting age and several million corporations--those people in Washington will treat you accordingly. In essence, campaign spending in America has divided all of us into two groups: first- and second-class citizens. This is what happens if you are in the latter group...