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Council members then bring up major concerns with the framework of this Judiciary Board, despite the fact that the proposal was brought up a week ago in council meeting and has been in the planning stages for weeks. Chairman Offutt, concerned with the ticking of the clock, bids them hold off until this week's meeting of the Committee on the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CCRR...
...Year's Day speech, Babangida pledged to sponsor a national debate on the transfer of power to a civilian government. Said he: "I wish to reaffirm that this administration does not intend to stay in power a day longer than is required to lay the necessary institutional framework to bring about a better and more stable Nigeria." The voluntary and orderly turnover of power to a civilian government would flout the norm in Africa, where coupmakers have all too often made similar pledges. Many observers, in fact, believe that Babangida's program will entrench military power for years to come...
...drink cocktails and relax in their bathtubs" points out that the sexual revolution has been primarily a bourgeois one for Western audiences who can afford to dwell upon appeasing libidos instead of hunger. Emecheta claims that Western women have, in fact, undervalued themselves by staying within the capitalist framework and focusing on the need to "relearn how to be a woman." Her claim echoes other Third World feminists who call for a return to a socio-economic basis for feminism; most important, this claim points out the viability of a movement grounded in marginality as a strategy of reform...
...wings," divisions of scholars with similar interests. "Social Relations served a very good purpose, but I felt it fractured in the latter years," says Edward L. Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences. According to Pattullo, Social Relations came to function as four separate departments under a larger framework. Others say that by the 1950s the department was already tenuring scholars for achievement in particular fields, having little regard for a candidate's contributions to "social relations" broadly understood...
...some of the same forces pushing thepsychologists of today toward greater and greaterspecialization were at work within SocialRelations, eventually causing the group tofunction like "four separate departments within alarger framework," says Edward L. Pattullo,director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences...