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...should a writer whose books have sold millions of copies, and who is extremely popular and well-off in his own country, suddenly decide not to return to that country, which, moreover, he loves...
...those at the top. It was not unheard of for a government official to discover a new car in his garage, its donor a mystery until a Chinese towkay (rich merchant) mentioned it offhandedly-and then perhaps asked for a favor. For a Chinese or Indian who was not well-off, or for a Malay who was not well-connected, there was little largesse in the system. Even for those who were favored, hard feelings persisted. One towkay recently told a Malay official: "If it weren't for the Chinese, you Malays would be sitting on the floor without...
...been gang-raped by horse guardsmen, then invited the Attorney General of England to prosecute him. After 40 minutes' deliberation, the jury acquitted Bourne-and the "Bourne rule" stood for 30 years. Its effect was to make abortion available to any Englishwoman who was articulate and well-off enough to persuade doctors to certify, by a liberal interpretation of the law, that continuation of her pregnancy would endanger her life. Inevitably, there were uncounted and uncountable illegal, back-street abortions for the less privileged, with the danger of serious illness or death from infection or plain butchery...
...cause of civil rights than the gentile. Partly, Jewish liberalism toward the Negro was a product of self-interest: if the Negro could be repressed, then so could Jews. But the Jewish willingness to help others also stems from the abiding generosity of the Hebrew religious tradition?though less well-off Jews sometimes feel far too threatened to share such altruistic sentiments. Jewish philanthropists were among the whites who helped Negro leaders establish the N.A.A.C.P. and the Urban League. The honor roll of CORE and S.N.C.C. martyrs includes the names of Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, two Northern Jews...
...happen before the year 2000. "We shall, in the rich countries, be surrounded by a sea of famine, unless three tremendous social tasks are by then in operation." The tasks: massive grants of food, money and technical aid from rich nations to poor, perhaps amounting to 20% of the well-off countries' gross national products for 15 years; increased efficiency in food production by poor nations themselves; and new efforts in poor nations "to reduce or stop their population increase, with a corresponding reduction in the population increase in the rich countries also...