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...INOIS LIBRARY AT URBANACHAMPAIGN BOOKSTACKS Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should o... ... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ...has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Branches: Revolutionary Council acts as legislature and final court of appeal; Chairman of Council acts a... ...s (1986) Government Official name: Commonwealth of Austra- lia Type: federal parliamentary state recog- nizing Elizabeth II as sovereign or head of st... ...ecember 1986, $1.13 billion; about 4.2% of the proposed federal budget 200km Great Inagua See refionil map III Geography Total area: 13,940 km 2 ; lan... ...ocratic Group (RDNP), Leslie Manigat Voting strength: new voter registration lists being compiled Communists: United Party of Haitian Communists (PUCH... ... labor: 42% of labor force Government Official name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Type: constitutional monarchy Capital: Londo...

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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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... Pathological Narcissism – An Overview A Primer on Narcissism and the Narcissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Ent... ...arcissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? ... ...fully dependent on him emotionally, sexually, financially, and socially. He acts in a patronising and condescending manner and criticises often. He ... ..., omnipresence, and omniscience. To be a narcissist is to be convinced of a great, inevitable personal destiny. The narcissist is preoccupied with ... ... employees' pension funds – as did Robert Maxwell a generation earlier in Britain. The narcissist is convinced of his superiority – cerebral or ph... ... is an empty word. Granted, the hallmarks of democracy are there: candidate lists, parties, election propaganda, a plurality of media, and voting. B... ...g the end of history and the victory of liberalism and capitalism. Liberal parliamentarianism (coupled with unbridled individualistic capitalism) s...

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... economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current...

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...Excerpt: Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month, and day of the month are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from b...

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