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Newspaper and journal editorials asked whether such debt cancellation would simply lead to further mismanagement of budgets by rapacious military regimes, corrupt leaderships, greedy elites, and dishonest businesspeople with government times. To what extent would the debt reduction mitigate ethnic and cultural tensions, misuse of aid, and ( Read more... )

"China's Ministry of Public Health estimates that during the first six years of the population-control campaign, nearly 70 million abortions were performed in the country (where abortion was regarded as murder just a generation earlier)."

Stanton discussing Whitten's Flowchart of Wonder: "Biology and Chemistry would've been easy in the Middle Ages. All the answers would have been God."

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We can better appreciate the density and complexity of Dante's symbolism by looking at a single example. Our common image of Satan is that of a sly tempter (in popular art he is often in formal dress whispering blandishments in a willing ear with just a whiff of sulphur about him) after the manner of Milton's proud, perversely tragic, heroic Satan ( Read more... )