IRAN PRACTICES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BY BRINGING BALLOT BOXES TO THE PEOPLE Iran has elections every four years in which all citizens sixteen years of age and above are entitled to vote in a secret ballot for two candidates from a list of several presidential aspirants. The current liberalization trend in Iran is due to careful […]
HAWAIIAN CULTURE DOMESTICATES A MONSTER OR TWO The Hawaiian word ohana means “family,” a family in which “nobody gets left out or forgotten,” according to the animated tale Lilo & Stitch, codirected by Dean Deblois and Chris Sanders. In the prologue to the film, naughty Six-Two-Six (voiced by codirector Chris Sanders) has been banished from
PUCCINI ADVANCES THE CAUSE OF DEMOCRACY & HUMAN RIGHTS When the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens was issued in Paris in 1789, the scope of applicability was not limited to France. The declaration was intended to apply to the entire world, or at least to Europe. When Napoleon Bonaparte conscripted Frenchmen into
PUCCINI ADVANCES THE CAUSE OF DEMOCRACY & HUMAN RIGHTS When the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens was issued in Paris in 1789, the scope of applicability was not limited to France. The declaration was intended to apply to the entire world, or at least to Europe. When Napoleon Bonaparte conscripted Frenchmen into
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WORLD WAR III AVERTED IN K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER By 1960 the United States established an offensive nuclear advantage by placing Polaris submarines with nuclear missiles under the Arctic ice cap, in range of Leningrad and Moscow. Not to be outdone, the Soviet Union rushed construction of a similar submarine, named K-19, for operation by 1961.
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WORLD WAR III AVERTED IN K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER By 1960 the United States established an offensive nuclear advantage by placing Polaris submarines with nuclear missiles under the Arctic ice cap, in range of Leningrad and Moscow. Not to be outdone, the Soviet Union rushed construction of a similar submarine, named K-19, for operation by 1961.
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BUCCANEERS PILLAGE AGAIN IN SUNSHINE STATE Director-writer John Sayles’s pilgrimage across America to uncover conflicts of class and race has taken him to Florida in Sunshine State. The setting is mythical Plantation Island, though the actual filming took place at a resort on Amelia Island, Florida. Using short cuts, we learn how the tragic past
BUCCANEERS PILLAGE AGAIN IN SUNSHINE STATE Director-writer John Sayles’s pilgrimage across America to uncover conflicts of class and race has taken him to Florida in Sunshine State. The setting is mythical Plantation Island, though the actual filming took place at a resort on Amelia Island, Florida. Using short cuts, we learn how the tragic past
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CIRCUIT EXPOSES A MERRY-GO-ROUND RUN BY A BAGMAN When a gay person can no longer stand being trapped in a small town, the opportunities of big city gay life seem overwhelmingly tempting, and the gay migration to Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco has changed the culture of such meccas irreversibly. But gays,
CIRCUIT EXPOSES A MERRY-GO-ROUND RUN BY A BAGMAN When a gay person can no longer stand being trapped in a small town, the opportunities of big city gay life seem overwhelmingly tempting, and the gay migration to Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco has changed the culture of such meccas irreversibly. But gays,
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