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...black youths who have experienced so much violence at the hands of whites that murder means nothing to them. That touched off a round of heated commentary on op-ed pages, as 50-something pundits, black and white, wrestled with the thorny issue of Souljah's artistic intent. The matter could have been settled by listening to Souljah's CD, on which she raps in a ditty titled The Hate That Hate Produced...
...seems counterproductive to portray the messenger figure as a New Age hippie, a stereotype even liberal tree-huggers tend to mock. Is this an ironic undercutting of the fable's hitherto sincere message, or an unintentional lack of artistic imagination? The character is thought-provoking but ultimately unclear in intent and frustrating...
Following a bitter debate over the intent of its strong antiwar constitution, Japan's parliament last week cast crucial votes to authorize sending troops overseas for the first time since World War II to participate in carefully circumscribed U.N. peacekeeping operations. The move follows Japan's tentative step of sending minesweeping forces to the gulf after the war, and is a victory for the government. Stung by Western criticism of Tokyo's painless pay-your-way yen diplomacy, the government has sought to fashion a global political role for Japan that matches its economic muscle...
Precisely. U.N., E.C. and all the other entries in the dictionary of collective security (c.s.c.e., oas, etc., etc.) are powerless in the face of fighting. They keep the peace only in places where hostilities have already ended, places like the Golan Heights and Cyprus, where neither party is intent, at least today, on going to war. Yet we know from history that as soon as one or the other party changes its mind, all bets are off. In May 1967, Egypt, preparing war against Israel, ordered the U.N. to get its peacekeeping troops out of Sinai. Within days they were...
...resolution was subsequently amended to to include a category called "sexual negligence." The intent of the new category is to punish non-consentual sex, while not treating it as rape, according to Effie K. Anagnostopoulous '92 who proposed the amendment...