Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...answer is that in the age of the fax and the fiber-optic cable, federation is the future. But federation works only under the condition of freedom. Otherwise what passes for federation is really colonialism. And though colonialism had a good 500-year run, it is spent. The only way to turn colonial empires into real federations is to allow them to break up into their constituent parts and hope that in their wisdom they will see fit to knit themselves back together again...
Shoal Creek's management knew they would have to do something to settle this controversy. And what was the easy answer? They would have to find a Black millionaire, of course. But one that would spend $35,000 of his hard-earned money to be in the company of alleged bigots? That, I thought, would be impossible...
...legislation allowing draft-age boys to opt out of military service, and Georgia and Russia may soon follow suit. In this year's spring call-up, the number of outright draft dodgers has grown to an estimated 20,000. In Armenia a mere 7% of draftable boys bothered to answer their induction notices...
...then 37,000 miles of borders to defend. But Lopatin has already begun to attract followers. The young officer's feisty attacks in parliament on the generals have become so popular that a joke is going around Moscow about him. Question: "What's the highest rank in the army?" Answer: "People's Deputy...
...long ago, I asked an old friend who teaches at a university in Mississippi whether he thought today's young white Southerners had the same sense of the South that we had. There was a pause, and then he offered a story he thought might help frame the answer. During a recent history class, another teacher was suddenly interrupted by a student, a white Southerner, who looked up with a puzzled frown and asked, "Tell me again, which side was Sherman...