Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saddam's aim is plainly to fulfill the letter of U.N. law by coming clean about Iraq's unconventional-weapons programs in order to get the sanctions lifted. But monitors like Ekeus suspect he has no intention of obeying the spirit of the ban. Iraq may already be secretly reviving its long-range missile program. Scientists continue to pursue ballistic-missile research, not only at sites destroyed during the war and rebuilt, such as the Saad 16 research and development center near Mosul, but in new facilities such as Ibn al-Haytham lab, constructed near Baghdad. While U.N. resolutions allow...
...last chapter titled "Reflections on Self, Spirit and Social Change," Ogden suddenly widens her scope. All within a few pages, she addresses feminist backlash, mass media and power hierarchy and raises some interesting questions about the political implications of changing gender roles. Yet by this time, near the very end of the book, these topics on longer seem appropriate with the mood set from the beginning, a navel in high relief. Overall, the book does not fulfill its original stated mission, but reduces itself to an entertaining article on sexual hocus-pocus...
...success of the ANC in the recent South African elections, coupled with the cooperative spirit in which Nelson Mandela has begun to form the country's new government, has provided enemies of racial discrimination all over the world with a cause to celebrate. One might argue that, finally, South Africa is on the way to possessing an egalitarian political system similar to our own; a system in which, as Justice O'Connor recently put it in a Supreme Court rejection of a race conscious districting proposal in North Carolina, "race on longer matters...
...might equally, however, argue that the spirit of inclusion which characterised Mandela's acceptance of the South African presidency (and F.W. de Klerk's concession of the same position) provide a sharp contrast with the hopeless inadequacy of minority political representation in the United States. It is this second argument which is pointed out powerfully by the recent publication of Lani Guinier '71's collection of articles,The Tyranny of the Majority...
Divining the demonic spirit of Socrates, i offer a quasi-genuine apology: advanced warning of incoherence and irrelevance. Enticing, isn't it? [Today is the last day of Reading Period, mind you. Or: this is being written in an agonizing moment of delusion...