The media, who are less accountable to society and therefore less concerned with standards than the government, are able to use their electorate-informing power to challenge and question the abuse of state power. ... In the 150-page judgement it was decided that "communal native title" had never formed part of Australian law. ... In its decision the court acknowledged that common law must recognise the concept of "native title" but the title could be extinguished by a valid act of either the state or federal parliaments expressing a plain and clear intention to do so. ... The Native Titl...

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The layout of the guide is organised around the main clauses of the PCA to ensure thorough coverage of all titles of the Agreement. All references made to specific "Titles- or "Articles- in this guide correspond to the titles and articles in the PCA, unless otherwise indicated. ...

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Slander rolled out on the Today show, whose anchor Katie Couric is compared in its pages to Hitler's mistress. ... HarperCollins, the publishing subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which distributes many titles pleasing to its conservative boss, canceled Slander late in 2001. ... The New York Times gave it to cultural critic Janet Maslin, who mildly criticized its "insult slinging- and "sarcastic overkill- but was too awed by its thirty-six pages of footnotes to determine whether any of them were accurate. Maslin missed the astounding error about her own paper in Slander...

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Born in 69 BC, Cleopatra VII was the inheritor of the Greek Macedonian, Ptolemaic Empire in Egypt. The founder of this glorious dynasty was Ptolemy Sooter or the 'savior', one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs and allegedly Alexander's (the Great) half brother. The Ptolemaic dynasties were known for their interbreeding practices which began with Ptolemy Sooter who married Bernice I, a royal Seleucid from Cyprus. Cleopatra VII was the grandchild of Ptolemy IX, whose illegitimate son Ptolemy XII Alutes the flute player married his sister Cleopatra V. Cleopatra VII was one among th...

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This was reinforced when a snippet of a retyped Henry James quote was found among the pages of his unfinished manuscript of "A Farewell to Arms." ... (Hemingway, Short 192) In the following passage from The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes relates - in an entirely factual way - an event that says more about Brett than ten pages of florid description. ...

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Darwin's On the Origin of Species clearly contains the characteristics of a scientific paper in the sense that he presents a thesis, and rigorously supports it though abundant documentation of natural observations as well as experimental data. However unlike most scientific papers, his target audie...

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Section V: Summary, is self-explanatory, the focus will be on the information collected in Section IV in relation to the questions presented in the introduction to answer the title question of the paper: Is terrorism a part of globalization? ... Four definitions emulating these differences come from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), The Mitchell Commission, Title 22 of the United States Code, and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs. ... (http://www.globalpolicy.org/wtc/un/2002/0203definition.htm, p.2) Title 22 of the United States Code defines terr...

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American Foreign Policy / POLS 4690 A paper submitted to Dr. Galatas of the History and Political Science Department at Georgia South Western State University The Era of Good Feelings: An Era of Idealism or Realism? The Era of Good Feelings was the national mood of the United States from...

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Children and Bilingualism According to the 1990 United States Census, one in seven or 31.8 million people speak a language other than English in their home. In the past, second generation children were encouraged to adopt the customs, culture, and language of what was identified as the majority culture. Today, with greater recognition and celebration of cultural differences, people are more likely to maintain and share their primary language with their children and to promote bilingualism as a reflection of ethnic pride and identity. What is Bilingualism? Different people use the term in ...

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Tribunals The EOC has looked at 54 employment tribunal decisions, in sexual harassment cases that were heard between 1998 and 2001, to see what those cases revealed. Successful cases The employee Thirty-four cases were successful. In three of those cases the person making the complaint was male. In most cases the harassment began while the person bringing the complaint had been working for that employer for less than one year, and their work tended to be low paid (e.g carers, shop and factory workers, office staff). Shift work was a factor in a third of cases. ...

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