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...appropriate here to remember the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted 60 years ago this week. Using this document as a template, Pakistan and India must ensure their citizens?? rights and access to education, social justice, economic opportunity, and healthcare. The terrorism we see today is not simply a geopolitical struggle. Rather, it is an ideological one. Unless we eradicate the roots of helplessness, disenfranchisement and intolerance, we cannot expect a peaceful and productive future for South Asia. We must join hands, as Americans, Pakistanis, Indians and citizens of the world, to turn this catastrophe into an opportunity...
...presenting her findings, Smith warned against premature judgment about the responsibility of governments for their citizens?? malnutrition...
...election brings much-needed attention to state and local races after months of focus on the presidential campaign. We too often forget that counties administer vital services and institutions: schools, libraries, parks, water and waste facilities, roads and transit systems, and even elections themselves. That these services directly impact citizens?? lives is all the more reason to hold local officials accountable. If nothing else, the enthusiasm—or the resentment—at having a college student in county politics ought to bring out the vote in Grafton County...
Yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War, as well as American citizens?? annual opportunity to pay their respects to the sacrifices made by their military. Certainly, it is only proper to designate a specific occasion to honor people who placed themselves in such close proximity with death, injury and emotional distress in service to their country. But while the act of remembrance is one heavy with contemplation and respect, Veterans’ Day must also offer the opportunity for deeper, critical judgments about war and the way we remember...
...very act of tying an author or a body of literature to a particular nation has become problematic in an age of migration. The intranational, intracontinental, and intercontinental movements of people have increased the number of “global citizens?? and diluted many claims to a pure, national identity. Le Clézio is hardly an unambiguous “Frenchman”—although born in Nice and of French descent, he moved to Nigeria when he was eight, punctuated his life with long stays in Mexico and South America, married a Moroccan woman...