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...fact that they have any serious political power at all is remarkable because Australian whites, in the course of waging an undeclared war of conquest against the Aborigines, systematically denied them any access to the culture of politics right from the moment of settlement in 1788. Aborigines weren't mentioned in the Australian constitution when it took force in 1901. Not until 1962 were they given federal voting rights. The historical weight of discrimination against them is crushing...
...bush, and even from the convict era. They are wound tightly into our social history. One of these is the value set on "mateship"; another, related to it, is a much paraded dislike of elitism. Mateship--essentially, male bonding--began in the harsh world of the penal settlement. It continued in the hardly less tough environment of labor that was the lot of most men in the bush: shearers, station hands, shepherds. To have a mate was to survive; to betray that mate was to be a scab, less than a man; such was the hard calculus of colonial life...
...soft spot for preserving the vitality of the city’s neighborhoods. In addition to his day job, he writes a column for The Alewife, a North Cambridge and Porter Square newspaper, and serves as the president of the board of the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, the oldest settlement house in the United States...
Cost of the settlement in a racial-harassment lawsuit against a Mississippi oil-rig company. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says nooses were displayed on a rig in the Gulf of Mexico...
...their savings at the bank in the 1930s, UBS refused to return those assets to victims’ families after World War II. It wasn’t until August 1998 that UBS finally agreed to compensate victims’ families. And even as the bank was negotiating the settlement with Jewish groups, UBS began to shred the World War II-era archives of a subsidiary that had maintained close ties to the Nazi regime. (UBS said that the shredding was a “deplorable mistake” and apologized.) Given that UBS has already expressed contrition...