Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...modern days it would be politicians" instead of Christians who would be fed to the lions. That evening, the Carters dined at the Quirinale with President Pertini, Communist Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer and other top Italian politicians...
...system he extolls while trying to improve it; yet he refused to compromise when it came to working within the Arkansas prison system. It's hard to break with a system. It's harder to be right all the time. But it's even harder to change the system, instead of simply revealing its failures...
Laws and courts, like the state, were supposed to fade away as the Soviet system developed. Instead they have flourished. The Babushkinsky District People's Court, one of 32 in Moscow, is a typical tribunal empowered to try practically all civil and criminal cases. It employs ten full-time judges (seven of them women) and 750 people's assessors; these lay jurists, elected by co-workers or neighbors, consider the job an honor. Judicial business is booming, explains the chief judge, Polina Gorelova, because "here any citizen can take his case to court...
Some of the Soviet Union's most important writing has never been published there at all. Instead, it circulates widely from hand to hand in the process known as samizdat (literally, self-publishing). Varlam Shalamov's lapidary concentration-camp stories, some of which were recently published in the U.S. by W.W. Norton under the title Kolyma Tales, have been in samizdat for 20 years. Currently the most prized samizdat work is Venedikt Yerofeyev's Moscow-Petushki. The account of a phantasmagoric drunken excursion on a suburban train, Yerofeyev's novella may be the most innovative piece...
DRAFT REGISTRATION is now an unhappy reality; the choice for 19- and 20-year-olds is no longer how to oppose passage of the law. Instead, young people now face a personal choice--whether to register...