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... outside ofand beyond the institutional and aesthetic orbit of dominant cultural centers of power and authority like the Lincoln Center, PBS, andthe New York Times The concept ofthe jazz left then ... are the erosion of moral standards; the loss ofthe work ethic (e.g., the 1996 Welfare Bill); law and order (e.g., the 1995 Crime Bill); the decay of Western civilization (the culture wars ofthe ... ofthe innate ability of early jazz musicians Because of these writers’ lack of understanding ofthe mechanics of music, they thought there weren’t any mechanics It is the ‘they all can sing, they...
... struggles and learning about the lives of women in different parts ofthe world Their commitment to social change and their insights into the effects of socialist collapse on the lives of everyday ... The concept ofthe transition economy justifies the disintegration of society andthe social costs accompanying market reforms, including the worsening ofthe situation of women and other vulnerable ... are reworked, andthe rights and needs of various categories of citizens redefined These women’s social justice struggles and their uneven success highlight some ofthe social costs of economic...
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... The same kind of problem may arise in the context of debates over prayer in public schools, the rights of homosexuals, traditional sex 24 Religion andthePoliticsof Tolerance roles, and other ... explained within the body ofthe analysis 36 Religion andthePoliticsof Tolerance The Data for the Analysis The data for this chapter comes from a random sample phone survey of 601 individuals ... America, the work of John Stuart Mill and John Locke has led to the argument that what tolerance best exemplifies is the freedom to enter and exit the marketplace ThePoliticsof Tolerance 21 of ideas...
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... from private and commercial sources was closed In July 1991, 47 tonnes of gold from the reserve assets ofthe Reserve Bank of India was shipped to the vaults ofthe Bank of England in a dramatic ... Petition was then filed with the Supreme Court of India on the limited question of whether the Court could dismiss the petition on ground that it was purely "academic" and there was no "cause of action." ... and collective level efforts not exist There are many such efforts ongoing in different parts ofthe country and many of them operate without any funding whatsoever, and without the context of...
... studies ofthe crisis rhetoric ofthe leaders ofthe United Kingdom, France, Ireland andthe European Commission andthe European Central Bank The crisis hit hard and fast in the United Kingdom and ... focus ofthe bulk of existing research on emergencies and crises) In formal terms, the ultimate explanandum ofthe study ofthe rhetoric of crisis exploitation is twofold: the nature and depth of ... 2004).1 The sense of threat and uncertainty they induce can profoundly impact people’s understanding ofthe world around them The occurrence of a large-scale emergency or the widespread use of the...
... Liquidity Scheme, andthe cost of nationalizing Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley But if we add all the other Bank of England and HM Treasury loans and guarantees to the banking system, the IMF calculates ... model ofthe spread of SARS and HIV, or the collapse of fish stocks There is an isomorphism about ‘seizures in the electrical grid, degradation of eco-systems, the spread of epidemics andthe disintegration ... some ofthe new concepts and apparatus which we bring to analysing and understanding the operations ofthe finance sector andthe difficulties of political reform Bernanke’s story, illustrated in the...
... part ofthe SNCC skin.62 It was a defining attribute of who they were, how they believed the activist body should appear, andthe political and aesthetic value they placed on their style The same ... 646 THE JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY had begun to understand and question the class politicsofthe black community, Baker noted that they would have to “break through the pseudo-sophistication of ... in the national office and in the field.”63 The women came in as individuals, carrying the markers of their class backgrounds, and emerged as SNCC people, who wore their hair natural and made themselves...
... Gomez cites the issue ofthe ethnic factor in the creation of two loose coalitions, that ofthe APU andthe Gagasan in the late 1980s and early 1990s.39 Khong Kim Hoong’s analysis ofthe 1990 Malaysian ... alliances ofthe main opposition parties.43 Antipathy towards Mahathir as an individual and to UMNO andthe BN as the government grew over the years The handling ofthe then recent events such as the ... on the publicity ofthe PAS, was not a determinant in the DAP’s termination of its membership in the BA The concluding chapter sums up the findings ofthe entire research andthe implications of...
... ofthe soft -the world of intangibles, of media, of software, andof services-will soon command the world ofthe hard -the world of reality, of atoms, of objects, of steel and oil." While Kelly ... scrolls and Greeks establishing schools andthe study of mathematics The ride skips forward to the invention ofthe printing press andthe subsequent flourishing of culture during the Renaissance, then ... This quality recalls another aspect of standardization: the degree to which it favors thepoliticsand practices of a specific group of actors to the exclusion of another In other words, a technology...
... and underwriting RMBS, GoldmanSachs often purchased the underlying loans from banks and other lenders In other cases, GoldmanSachs acted as an underwriter for securitizations ofthe loans of ... instruments at the initiation of our the firm to so, regardless of whether the other side of a transaction has been identified or is readily available In light ofthe global and complex nature of markets, ... mortgages and credit trading.29 VI Our Profits and Losses During the Financial Crisis Given the deteriorating performance ofthe mortgage market in 2007 and 2008 andthe corresponding decline in the...
... book, but the great story ofGoldmanSachs is really their story and that ofthe many thousands who joined the firm before them and enabled it to become today’s GoldmanSachsGoldmanSachs is a ... in the way people at the firm work together, in the way alumni feel about the firm and each other, and in the power ful spiritual bonds that command their attention and commitment The leaders of ... suddenly rose before GoldmanSachsandthe other members ofthe underwriting syndicate had sold their allocations to investors As so often in GoldmanSachs s history, specific gains and losses led to...
... 304 The Last Holdouts: GoldmanSachsand Lazard Freres and recognized the pitfalls ofthe investment banking business in the 1970s Andre Meyer’s strategy would have been anathema to them The ... trend correctly; the 1960s became the decade ofthe conglomerate, andthe aggressive individuals who commanded them, the conglomerateurs The Avis sale was the one ofthe first transactions that Lazard ... adoration, and helped win wars On the other side ofthe coin, they have been accused of stealing from the public purse, endangering the public interest, and starting those wars for their own profit...
... child of Union punishes its mother from within and threatens its father, too, ‘‘across the water’’ () The ‘‘legacy’’ () of force and violence, the poem suggests, is more ofthe same: the crossing ... suspicious – not ofthe fact of conquest the poem describes, but ofthe sexualized and gendered binary it superimposes on the colonial relation, andof its attendant use of rape as a metaphor of imperial ... concerns of theorists and critics working in a wide variety of specific contexts – the creation of otherness as a material agent of imperial rule, the place of language as a site of both domination and...
... the food stocks, andthe mood ofthe garrison The tactics ofthe Daily Mail captured the attention ofthe nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation ofthe town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role ofthe press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism andthe role ofthe press in the formation ofthe concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning ofthe New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning ofthe end ofthe New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature ofthe South African...
... humanity, with the spread ofthe Gregorian calendar andthe heliocentric idea ofthe world The ‘incipient phase’ began in the mid-eighteenth century and ended in the 1870s The concept ofthe unitary ... andthe proper domain ofthe United Nations Many commentators write ofthe decline ofthe nation-state, in the face ofthe transference of national sovereignty to such structures as the UN, the ... the rise ofthe state 6.1 The birth ofthe state 6.2 Legal diversity and universality in the emerging European states 6.3 The decline ofthe Christian commonwealth 6.4 The arrival ofthe state...
... conservative propaganda, and with the break up ofthe radical associations andthe consequent erosion ofthe links between these organisations and other intellectual currents and circles, the conditions ... by enlightening the understanding, and uniting the sentiments and views of men andof nations, forms a concert of wills, and a concurrence of action too powerful for the armies of tyrants’ (2 ... from the superstitions ofthe weak, andthe imposing craft ofthe subtle’ (323) Thomas Holcroft placed a similar emphasis on the art of printing’ in the defence of this progressivist vision of...
... the same base as the segment and an equal height.3 Later, theorems worthy of mention suggested themselves to us, and we took the trouble of preparing their proofs They are these: first, that the ... the center ofthe sphere, I call the figure internally contained by the surface ofthe cone, and by the surface ofthe sphere inside the cone, a “solid sector.” /6/ And when two cones having the ... See the following note on purpose and practices ofthe critical edition of diagrams 2.3 Purpose and practices ofthe critical edition of diagrams The main purpose ofthe critical edition of diagrams...