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... Ivo Poletto Churches, the Pastoral Land Commission, and the 4 Mobilization for Agrarian Reform Citing Popol Vuh, Eduardo Galeano says that when the gods created human beings, before the discovery of corn, their...

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... So(ial and 1 Politi(al R,form After the revolution of 1905, leaders of the Tatar movement gave their help to Central Asian partisans of reform, who attentively read Tatar and Azeri newspapers published in...

... childhood with the intent of raising her in a Christian manner; but now that she is grown she has turned out bad and routinely flees my house, and I have not been able to reform her despite repeated punishments." He asked that the young woman be "perpetually shut up in the Casa de Misericordia and...

... Robert A. Burt Legal Reform and Aging: Current Issues, Troubling Trends Editor's Introduction. With the same moral and psychological acuity that distinguishes his Taking Care of Strangers (1979), Robert Burt presses us to reconsider the meanings embedded in...

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...3 Welfare “Reform” as Poor Discipline and Statecraft If people stay on welfare for prolonged periods of time, it administers a nar- cotic to the spirit. This dependence on welfare undermines their humanity and makes them wards of the state.—Franklin Delano...

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