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After her academic appointment at Southern Illinois University in 1967, Dunham worked for racial equality by helping to rehabilitate former gang members through the performing arts...
...different. They have no political agenda and owe their allegiance not to any institutions or geographical expressions on earth but to a higher authority in heaven. The classic examples of the first are the armed wings of national liberation movements, like the Irish Republican Army, Israel's Stern Gang and Umkhonto We Sizwe, the military arm of the African National Congress. It is quite possible to support the aims of such groups while deploring their means. The classic example of the second category, of course, is Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, for in conventional terms bin Laden...
...World Bank, the World Trade Organization - that advanced American interests, military and economic, along with those of others. Today, the U.S. is more prone to rend than to mend the international fabric. But why should Gulliver bear the ropes? Easy. Better to contain yourself than to have others gang up on you. This has been the fate of all hegemonic powers from Napoleon's France to Stalin's Russia. Gulliver did well for himself by doing good for others. He got into trouble when he forgot etiquette and emptied his bladder on the royal palace of the Lilliputians...
...YOUR FRIENDS Just because Rachel, Ross and the gang of Friends make you laugh doesn't mean they're your buddies. That may seem obvious, but a researcher at Indiana University of Pennsylvania thinks many TV viewers subconsciously register faces they see regularly--even those of actors on the small screen--as friends. Some subjects thought they had a rich social life but may only have been relating well with the couch...
...many young Africans and Arabs of the younger generation often feel alienated from the larger society and the country of their parent’s origin. Consequently, the problems of France’s ghettos have come to resemble those of America’s inner cities: drugs, violence, gang culture, crime and family disintegration...