Impunity and the Inner History of Life.
1. Introduction THIS IS A REFLECTION BASED ON A MEDICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL PRACTICE with a universe of around 3,000 people who had been the victims of persecution, torture, executions, disappearances, and exile in Chile. Our experience was initiated in 1973, in the wake of the military...

Operation Condor: Clandestine Inter-American System.
IN THE 10 YEARS SINCE THE COLD WAR'S END, THE WORLD HAS SEEN A GRADUAL opening up of formerly Secret state archives on both sides of the East-West divide, as well as truly astonishing developments in human rights and international law. Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon's request for the arrest...

A TICKET TO HELL.
That's what powerful reporting can mean for Africa's embattled journalists, who face harsh reprisals from government and rebel factions in many of the continent's countries. In Zimbabwe, Ray Choto wrote the kinds of stories about political upheaval that in the United States might have made him a...

William III and the Godly Revolution.
The World of William and Mary: Anglo-Dutch Perspectives on the Revolution of 1688-89, edited by Dale Hoak and Mordechai Feingold. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1996. xv, 339 pp. $49.50 U.S. Glorious, Bloodless, Respectable and Godly are words used to describe the Revolution of 1688-89, all the more remarkable,...

Let this school out for good.
BILINGUAL EDUCATION HAS BECOME the center of furious debate around the country since California recently outlawed the mother tongues of most of the planet. While impassioned educators swear at each other in a variety of colorful dialects elsewhere, at least one bilingual education program plods ahead without arousing much...

Toward a Buddhist social ethics: the case of Thailand.
Traditional Buddhist concepts of moral conduct need to be reinterpreted for the modern world and integrated into a social ethical theory. Buddhism is often criticized as a religion that, being mainly concerned with personal salvation, lacks a social ethics. Although this may seem to be true, Buddhist teachings on...

Learning to live with a free press.
Guillermo Ignacio, a newspaper editor from a coastal city 300 miles southeast of Buenos Aires, worries that press freedom can be fleeting. His newspaper, Ecos Diarios in Necochea, was founded by his grandfather in 1921. Ecos Diarios operated under authoritarian governments for many years until 1983, when democracy and...

Leading ladies Latin America: in less than four decades, these commendable females have advanced and influenced the role of women, transcending the typically male-dominated political realm.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AS of 2008--a year when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton evoked global admiration for her campaign to become the first female standard-bearer of a major US political party--eleven women had served as presidents or prime ministers of independent Latin American nations. Each one has a story...

IRAN - Nov 3 - Iran Marks Seizure Of US Embassy.
Thousands of Iranians demonstrate to celebrate the 29th anniversary of the takeover of the US Embassy by militant students. Crowds gathered outside the former embassy building to demonstrate on a day that was declared a school holiday so that children could be bused into the capital to take part....

Pakistan's instability increases.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Sriram Kh For The Register-Guard On Aug. 12 a year ago, I wrote that an unstable Pakistan has the potential to cause geopolitical crises beyond our wildest imagination. I wondered whether it would be better if Pervez Musharraf continued as the president of...