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...international community can be successfully ignored as long as there's money to be made in the smuggling business, which there always is. Local pride, too, often works to support those who defy sanctions; misplaced nationalism sometimes causes oppressed people to rally round their leaders rather than succumb to pressure from outsiders...
What Lat seems to be arguing is that a conservative born into a family that is pro-life and pro-death penalty should not succumb to the idea that he or she can rationally attack the inherent contradiction, but rather should smile and adhere to the status...
...impervious to treatment. The ability of the cancer cell to outmaneuver its attackers has long been reflected in mortality statistics. Despite gains made against cancers such as childhood leukemia and Hodgkin's lymphoma, the overall death rate remains dismally high. This year more than half a million Americans will succumb to cancer, making it the nation's second leading killer after cardiovascular disease...
Ionesco's conception of "rhinoceritis" remains suffused with moral and practical implications although it strives only to investigate the personal motivations and character failures that made Nazism possible. That a whole town of provincial but well-intentioned and essentially good people could succumb to propagandistic slogans and mental manipulation seized on Ionesco's imagination because of the unusual instances of people who resisted. What they had that saved them spiritually remains impossible to define, but through the hypothetical exercise of Rhinoceros, Ionesco explores some of the features of those who fell under the spell and those who did not. Berenger...
...animals but are crucial to understanding the uniquely human predicament. We are, as Shakespeare said, the "paragon of animals" precisely because we possess the capability of using language, creating mathematical concepts, writing music and, above all, perceiving our own immortality. Not to appreciate this fact is to succumb to populist, if not sophomoric, anthropomorphism in which an attempt to raise the status of the lower animals to that of humans manages only to demean the latter and in some ways the former...