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We are reminded of the brilliant film that comes too close to being reality in this scenario from "The Manchurian Candidate," in which a returning veteran, a hero and prisoner of war for a long time, has been brainwashed, his mind having been programmed to trigger a murderous response on a certain day and time. That, too, brings to mind a saying that has been familiar for many years: Truth is stranger and a thousand times more thrilling than fiction.
In the minds of many of us who happen to be Black and have some understanding of the process of becoming President, we have lived the nightmare of "The Manchurian Candidate" without assigning roles. It was a belief that white middle America would not allow a white female to run for and become President of the United States. secondly, when ...
... African Black-can become by South African edict, an honorary white with port folio who by South Af...That was a definition of South Africa, and as a residue of slavery, Amer...
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...(a) Definition of affiliate. The term affiliate, as used in INA 2... by official act, proclamation, order, edict, or decree. (f) Membership in Organization Advocat...
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...A fatwa, by definition, is an Islamic religious edict or proclamation. Ad...
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[...] if it is the mother who is summoning the child, then the directive is that she should interrupt the recommended ritual prayer and respond to her mother.60 Ayatullah Saanei makes use of this new epistemology and hermeneutic strategies when dealing with other issues pertaining to present-day society as well, such as the legality or prohibition of interest (riba) and use of gambling (qumar) instruments, minority rights, religious pluralism, bio-medical ethics, right of a wife to unilaterally divorce her husband, permissibility of women to occupy the position of judges or the highest religious post, and the age at which a person would become religiously accountable (mukallaf) and able to transact a marriage.61 Conclusion In the works of Ayatullah Saanei, one observes a major epistemol...
...Instead of just giving the ruling or an edict, the imam went through the process of explaining t... of the ideal "Islam" is, by definition, something human and this-worldly and as such is b...
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... for conflict between the Directives' edicts and individual conscience. . Part II recounts the ... an interpretive rule following this definitional trend. (117) The proliferation of broadly defined ...
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..., cult formation, and communal self-definition, that I want to situate the Pulkau Passion Altarpi... for all of Styria in 1496, for example, the edict offered up a familiar litany of "coarse, shocking ...
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Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. last week irked some city lawmakers and activists when he vetoed a bill creating a citizen's advisory committee for the proposed Red Line transit project, and instead signed an executive order creating a similar committee appointed entirely by his administration.
Under the legislation, which passed with bipartisan support, the advisory council would have included 15 members, with 10 appointed by legislative leaders in consultation with Baltimore City lawmakers, two appointed by the governor, two by the mayor of Baltimore and one by the Baltimore County executive.
...The governor's edict leaves a broad definition of the council's duties,...
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...A law which does not alter the definition of the crime but only revives prosecution does not... the motive for and principle sustaining the edict." Ibid. As Collins and Carmell explained, th...
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... the general rule and the comprehensive definition of "public accommodation," it is apparent that pet... of the Constitution, aware of the 1457 edict of King James II of Scotland prohibiting golf beca...
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... correlated with an ethic that by definition must be biased and discriminatory--and the very es.... Another writer alluded to Jesus's edict: "Judge not, lest ye be judged," perceiving Ward a...