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...methods by which Moscow seeks to woo back the near abroad republics can be crude, often mustered under the broad banner of protecting ethnic Russians. In some cases the tool is brute military force of the sort used in December 1992 when Russian-manned planes from Uzbekistan helped bring down a government of Tajikistan composed of Islamic and democratic groups, and installed pro- communist rulers. In other regions, Russia prefers to flex its muscles by yanking the economic rug out from under a government -- as it did last week when Moscow began cutting off gas supplies to Belarus, Moldova...
...neglects to indicate how we might construct touchstones that would work better ad in more socially and politically progressive ways than the ones we have so far." Paradoxically, it is only in the recognition of his limitations that theory ultimately comes into its own as a tool...
...Culture Minister Jacques Toubon plans to defend the new language bill in Parliament. According to Minister Toubon, "the government is turning the policy of French language into a national cause." Like a good French deconstructionist, Minister Toubon takes language very seriously: "A foreign language...often becomes a tool of domination, uniformization, a factor of social exclusion...
Being minority among minorities is rather interesting and can be amusing when people sometimes assume I am a socialist. However, overtly anti conservative comments and accusations of being tool for the oppressive white male make being a conservative Hispanic freshman a sometimes arduous experience...
...benefits program are finally made, it is proper and essential that top-level administrators make them. but these administrators owe it to Harvard's workers to take their concerns seriously. Whether they will do so remains to be seen. The advisory groups in place could either be a tool for substantive consultation, or a facade for a closed process...