Word: suddenness
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...much of its history, Hong Kong was not a democracy but flourished under a colonial administration run for the most part by civil servants. Is Hong Kong ready for universal suffrage? For a territory that has had little experience with the rights and responsibilities of a full democracy, a sudden transition to democracy would be akin to parents giving their Ferrari keys to their teenagers, who will race wildly down the autobahn. Maurice Weya Templo, Jakarta...
...said that five years ago at a meeting of the deans, I posed the same question,” Counter said. “During my 35 years at Harvard, we have had a black coach in athletics, because our president, Derek Bok, made an effort. All of a sudden we’ve gone back in time.” Scalise responded that many of Harvard’s coaching positions haven’t seen much turnover, restricting the department’s ability to make changes. He repeatedly emphasized that other factors shouldn?...
Einstein's exposure to science and math produced a sudden transformation at age 12, just as he would have been readying for a bar mitzvah. He suddenly gave up Judaism. That decision does not appear to have been drawn from Bernstein's books because the author made clear he saw no contradiction between science and religion. As he put it, "The religious inclination lies in the dim consciousness that dwells in humans that all nature, including the humans in it, is in no way an accidental game, but a work of lawfulness that there is a fundamental cause...
...Iran's sudden decision to release the Britons may mean that the Western pressure on the Iranian regime is bearing fruit. A day after the Britons were taken captive, the U.N. Security Council passed the second set of sanctions against Iran in three months - and a third round of sanctions is anticipated if Iran does not freeze its uranium-enrichment program, which the U.S. fears could enable Tehran to produce a nuclear weapon. As Under Secretary of State R. Nicholas Burns told the Senate last week, "Despite the fulminations of President Ahmadinejad, Iran is not impervious to financial and diplomatic...
...release of the Britons could also mean that Iran has achieved some of its objectives. The surprise announcement came just a day after the sudden release of an abducted Iranian diplomat in Iraq, who Iranian officials claimed had been arrested on U.S. orders. British, American and Iraqi officials denied any connection between the freed Iranian and release of the Britons. Iran also disclosed on Wednesday that its embassy in Iraq had finally been granted access to the five Iranians detained at Erbil...