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...witnessing death in combat People really don't understand the sacrifices that are made here by the soldiers. Things are getting better, but the rate of violence that the Iraqi people undergo is also very difficult and it's hard for Americans to understand. It comes off as statistics, but those are real people - Iraqis and Americans...
...order to send a message to the Mubaraks would do far more harm than good. The result would likely be internal fighting as the entrenched political and military power is overturned. Rather than a sudden transition to democracy with an open election, Egypt needs to slowly undergo reform. The best way to do this while maintaining stability is through the continuation of the current power dynamic...
...that it has positive implications as a cultural rite of passage. The film “Asylum,” released in 2003, follows the experiences of a Ghanaian woman, Baaba Andoh, who resisted her father’s attempts to force her to marry an older man and undergo female circumcision. Andoh fled her home country and was detained in the United States for a year before receiving asylum. The discussion following the film mainly focused on whether the practice should be referred to as “circumcision” or “mutilation...
...Percentage of American women who undergo the procedure before they turn...
...blacks, are 52 percent longer than sentences for powder cocaine, a facet of the structural racism that is exacerbating the inequality of the prison population. The recent U.S. Supreme court ruling allowing judges to sidestep mandatory minimum drug sentences is a welcome development, but the justice system must undergo further changes to attenuate the rate of imprisonment in our nation. The prison system should be a device for isolating the most violent and dangerous criminals from society, not a replacement for pragmatic solutions of education and rehabilitation for reducing crime...