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The Donald “Sly” Green drug racketeering trial continued Tuesday under some of the strictest security measures ever seen at Buffalo’s federal courthouse. Green, 35, sat in the courtroom in handcuffs and leg shackles, as a dozen federal marshals and security officers watched him. The water pitcher he tried to use as a weapon against a…

Wittgenstein ( 1987, p. 14, Chapter I. Introduction ) set a big challenge for anthropology that has yet to be taken up. After reading the Golden Bough, he argues that Fraser made a important error by seeking to infer what things mean. He accused Fraser of non understanding that patterns signify nil but themselves, and…

A major debate in the international marketing literature deals with the globalization of markets and the extent to which a company’s international marketing strategy can be standardized (Buzzell, 1968; Cavusgil et al. , 1993; Douglas and Wind, 1987; Hill and Still, 1984; Jain, 1989; Levitt, 1983; Sorenson and Wiechmann, 1975). Significant progress has been made…

Euthanasia is a much-discussed topic in the UK these days, particularly when people believe that Euthanasia should be legalized. For some people, the most important question about Euthanasia is “Is it ever right to kill an innocent human being? ” Beneath (1843) famously said that all talk of natural rights is “nonsense upon stilts”. Yet…

Racism is a belief system which states that individuals can be superior to others on the basis of race. This theory has led to much violence and genocide in the world. It is, in fact, this sickness called racism that led the Nazis to slaughter the Jews. The theory of racism seems to have been…

Recent estimates indicate that are millions of American adults, and juveniles who are experiencing compulsive gambling problems. Those numbers are compounded by the loved ones who suffer along with them. If the Broken Window Theory is applied, the effect of gambling’s negative side effects start to spill over into the mainstream of society, or the…

In the Social Psychology Quarterly, Philip Manning and George Ray explore the article “Shyness, Self-Confidence, and Social Interaction” where recent studies aim to define and pinpoint the origins of shyness and self-confidence. These introverted and extroverted qualities have always been acknowledged as innate features that differentiate people. The authors delve into an experiment carried out…

The United States of America was essentially founded on the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness through solidarity of human kind. It has been the land of immigrants and still is. The melting pot and salad bowl, are two metahors often used to describe how the different cultures blend together.? The term…

Section 34 of Indian Penal Code deals with liability of an individual for sharing ‘intention’ when ‘several persons ’ are participating in the ‘criminal act’ done ‘in furtherance of the common intention of all’. Section 35, which complements the main rule laid down in sec 34, deals with situation where an offence requires a particular…

It was a day with hot colours, when it felt that the old wet season was about to set in. In that calm atmosphere Dion was running on the beach nearly breathless, trying to flee from his troubles. The salt soaked air was filling his lungs. Under the music of the wind and the rhythms…