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This course, which drew 250 students in 1992, covers major political philosophy concepts in a historical context, examining the effects of those ideas on political movements...
This course, which drew 250 students in 1992, covers major political philosophy concepts in a historical context, examining the effects of those ideas on political movements...
Republican images of children tend to be either the unborn variety or little Sally and Tommy holding empty bankbooks in their hands. Bob Dole always cites children in the context that it isn't fair to pass our debts on to them. The Democratic imagery in Chicago veered between idealized Gerber babies (after his speech, President Clinton played peekaboo with brother Roger's cherubic toddler) and children besieged by a host of modern threats, from TV violence to tainted burgers to weary mothers holding down three jobs. Between the White House's proposals on teen smoking and Al Gore...
...would be infinitely more surprising to me if scientists were somehow to prove that extraterrestrial life does not exist. For us on Earth to be alone in the galaxy would indeed be stunning. If other life does exist, what we might find is something else: not in the context of little green men or bug-eyed monsters, but in the perspective of where we are now in our development...
...planes based in the Kingdom to participate in the strikes, probably out of fear of retaliation. Many Arab countries feel that the attacks will cause needless suffering to an already impoverished Iraqi population. Others, like Toujan Faisal, a Jordanian member of parliament, view the U.S. strike in the context of President Clinton's re-election campaign. "It is a petty election game between Clinton and Dole," he said. "They are like kids, only they are playing with fire."--Lamia Abu-Haidar