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Firmage, Edwin B. | Ends and means | Since the advent of the atomic era, the United States has decided to wage war by covert means, intervening secretly in the election, selection and direction of governments in other countries. Our weapons are subversive propaganda, including "black" propaganda and disinformation; undermining the econ... | Prados, John; Cockburn, Leslie; Treverton, Gregory; Covert wars; Central Intelligence Agency; CIA | 1988 |
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Firmage, Edwin B. | Book review: Luard, The International Regulation of Frontier Disputes | The international system, like its municipal counterparts, has developed procedures and techniques for dispute resolution. These include traditional political or diplomatic procedures such as inquiry or fact-finding, conciliation, negotiation, and mediation. Other procedures are of a juridical natur... | Territorial conflicts; European boundaries; Political and diplomatic resolutions | 1972-09 |
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Flynn, John J. | Misuse and abuse of the Tunney Act: the adverse consequences of the microsoft fallacies | There have been two Microsoft cases leading to final judgements. Throughout the Tunney Act processes in both cases, however, there was little discussion regarding the standards of judicial review that should apply in a Tunney Act consent decree proceeding where no litigation has taken place. There ... | Tunney Act; Microsoft; Microsoft fallacy | 2003 |
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Francis, Leslie | Legal truth and moral realism | This January, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in appeals from two controversial "right to die" cases; decisions in the cases are expected by the end of the term.1 The Ninth Circuit case held that Washington's ban on assisted suicide, including physician-assisted suicide, violate... | Suicide; Dying; Ethics | 1997 |
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Francis, Leslie | Poverty, age discrimination, and health care | In Euripides' play Alcestis, Alcestis' middle-aged husband, Admetus, is told by the gods that it is his turn to die next. Admetus bargains a reprieve, promising in exchange to find another soul to take his place. His friends all turn him down. So do his father and mother. Admetus rebukes his father... | Alcesti, Section, Objective | 1985 |
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Firmage, Edwin B. | Reflections on Mormon history: Zion and the anti-legal tradition | SIR HENRY MAINE, OUR FIRST GREAT MODERN legal historian of the English language and law, in describing the paradigmatic shift from early feudal European society to a world of secular, territorial nation-states and market economy, observed that we had moved "from status to contract." "Status" assume... | Heaven; Christians; Revelations | 1998 |
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Flynn, John J. | Response | Speculation proceeding upon no set path and minimizing a logical thread of analysis may often be far more productive of insights into our never-ending search for knowledge than the most logical and analytical pursuit of "truth." The latter process is often premised upon unchallenged and unchallenge... | Truth; Society ; Values | 1975 |
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Francis, Leslie | Permissiveness and control (Book Review) | A review of the book "Permissiveness and Control". | Books; Philosophy | 1981-10 |