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The
death
of postcommunism in Poland has thus been greeted not with a bang but with a whimper.
According to Robert Gates, who became Director of the CIA in 1991, in the midst of the Soviet Union’s
death
throes, those who monitored compliance with the Helsinki Accords may have done more to bring down the Soviet empire than the CIA itself.
Needing nothing more than food, decent housing, and the possibility of a job, these families wait for death, dreading the cries of their starving children.
Emotions are raw in the aftermath of Bhutto’s
death.
Most Europeans cannot understand how, in a civilized country, both candidates can favor the
death
penalty.
In fact, now, after his death, he is well on the way to being lionized as someone who foresaw many current problems, and not only at home: while still President, he repeatedly called attention to the self-destructive forces of industrial civilization and global capitalism.
The
death
of Havel, a great believer in European integration, is thus highly symbolic: he was one of the last of a now-extinct breed of politicians who could lead effectively in extraordinary times, because their first commitment was to common decency and the common good, not to holding power.
Like Bo, both men had been members of the CCP Central Committee, the Party’s inner circle – a status that allowed them to escape a
death
sentence (unlike the lower-ranking former Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun following his conviction on similar charges of corruption and abuse of power).
A middle-aged South Korean female tourist was shot to
death
while walking on the beach, having inadvertently crossed over the boundary of the tourist zone.
As for Syria, the revolt against one of the most secular autocracies in the Arab world has degenerated into a fight to the
death
between Sunnis and Shia that is spilling over to other countries in the region.
Cano’s
death
is a welcome blow to the FARC.
Was it not the case, it is claimed, that the Shia also colluded with the Mongols in the fall of Baghdad in 1258, culminating in the
death
of the last Abbasid caliph and the destruction of the Abbasid Empire, the “universal state” of Muslims?
Herein lies the beguiling feature of the funeral of Johnny Hallyday, France’s national singer: his ability to stage-manage his destiny, right up the final hour, and the star power that his being retained even in
death.
To stress the urgency, a
death
penalty for possessing pink grain after that date was declared.
Among other problems, the US relies heavily on drones and bombers, leading to a high civilian
death
toll, which is inflaming public attitudes against the US.
On June 15, an attempt to evict farmers from a disputed piece of land turned violent, resulting in the
death
of 11 peasants and six policemen.
Without their involvement, Assad’s regime would most likely have remained repressive; with their involvement, Syria has become a site of mass
death
and destruction.
Although the violence was escalating, the
death
toll was still in the thousands, not tens of thousands.
That open-ended statement, without any clear means to achieve the goal that it announced, has done much to fuel military escalation and the rising
death
toll in Syria, while pushing the US repeatedly to defend its “credibility” against a line in the sand that it should not have drawn.
Kim ultimately settled for another way to express his leadership: arresting his uncle (and the regime’s China hand) at a party meeting and putting him to
death.
On one occasion, my colleagues and I were invited to a public hospital in a developing country to investigate why the
death
rate in a pediatric ICU caring for patients with dengue hemorrhagic fever was so high.
Harsh, radically conservative Islamic theologies have been around almost since the
death
of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, but they have been repeatedly contested by more tolerant, moderate schools of Muslim thought.
Just look at the issues that are beginning to agitate the political debate in advanced societies: birth control,
death
control, life prolongation, health cures, improvements in appearance, intellectual enhancement, personality alteration, human cloning, brain transplants, synthesis of human and artificial intelligence.
For the first child, Germany meant certain death; for the second, it offers hope for a better life.
In Africa, hunger remains the leading cause of
death
in children, accounting for half of all deaths of children under the age of five and killing more than AIDS, TB, and malaria combined.
Recent outbreaks of multidrug-resistant TB and extensively drug-resistant TB in South Africa, Mozambique, and Ghana could push the annual
death
toll even higher.
Fascism's demise was followed by the more gradual disintegration of communism after Stalin's
death
and Khrushchev's revelations of Stalin's crimes.
An aid cutoff to Ethiopia would nonetheless lead to a lot of
death
among impoverished people, who will lack medicines, improved seeds, and fertilizer.
When children have children, they face significant health risks; indeed, complications from pregnancy and childbirth are among the leading causes of
death
for girls aged 15-19 in low- and middle-income countries.
Public hearings were held in London to identify “where responsibility for the
death
lies.”
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