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【单选题】Rights to remember NEW HN,CONNECTICUTOne element of this doctrine is what I call "Achilles and his heel". September 11th brought uponAmerica, as once uponAchilles, a schizophrenic sense of both exceptional power and exceptional vulnerability. Never has a superpower seemed so powerful and so vulnerable at the same time. TheBush doctrine asked: "How can we use our superpower resources to protect our vulnerability "The administration has also radically shifted its emphasis on human rights. In 1941, FranklinDelano Roosevelt called the allies to arms by painting a vision of the world we were trying to make: a post-war world of four fundamental freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, freedom from fear.This framework foreshadowed the post-war human-rights construct-embedded in the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights and subsequent international covenants that emphasised comprehensive protection of civil and political rights (freedom of speech and religion), economic, social and cultural rights (freedom from want), and freedom from gross violations and persecution (the RefugeeConvention, the GenocideConvention and the TortureConvention).ButBush administration officials have now reprioritised "freedom from fear" as the number-one freedom we need to preserve. Freedom from fear has become the obsessive watchword ofAmerica’’s human-rights policy.Witness five faces of a human-rights policy fixated on freedom from fear.
A、 Two core tenets of a post-Watergate world had been that our government does not spy on its citizens, and thatAmerican citizens should see what our government is doing.But since September 11th, classification of government documents has risen to new heights.The PatriotAct, passed almost without dissent after September 11th, authorises theDefenceDepartment to develop a project to promote something called "total information awareness". Under this programme, the government may gather huge amounts of information about citizens without proving they have done anything wrong. They can access a citizen’’s records-whether telephone, financial, rental, internet, medical, educational or library-without showing any involvement with terrorism. Internet service providers may be forced to produce records based solely on FBI declarations that the information is for an anti-terrorism investigation.Many absurdities follow: the LawyersCommittee for Human Rights, in a study published in September, reports that 20American peace activists, including nuns and high-school students, were recently flagged as security threats and detained for saying that they were travelling to a rally to protest against military aid toColombi
A、The entire high-school wrestling team of Juneau,Alaska, was held up at airports seven times just because one member was the son of a retiredCoast Guard officer on the FBI watch-list.
B、After September 11th, 1,200 immigrants were detained, more than 750 on charges based solely on civil immigration violations. The JusticeDepartment’’s own inspector — general called the attorney — general’’s enforcement of immigration laws "indiscriminate and haphazard". The Immigration and Naturalisation Service, which formerly had a mandate for humanitarian relief as well as for border protection, has been converted into an arm of theDepartment of Homeland Security.The impact on particular groups has been devastating. The number of refugees resettled inAmerica declined from 90,000 a year before September 11th to less than a third that number, 27,000, this year. The Pakistani population ofAtlanticCounty, New Jersey has fallen by half. C、 Some 660 prisoners from 42 countries are being held in GuantanamoBay, some for nearly two years. Three children are apparently being detained, including a 13-year-old, several of the detainees are aged over 70, and one claims to be over 100.Courtrooms are being b
A、 Two core tenets of a post-Watergate world had been that our government does not spy on its citizens, and thatAmerican citizens should see what our government is doing.But since September 11th, classification of government documents has risen to new heights.The PatriotAct, passed almost without dissent after September 11th, authorises theDefenceDepartment to develop a project to promote something called "total information awareness". Under this programme, the government may gather huge amounts of information about citizens without proving they have done anything wrong. They can access a citizen’’s records-whether telephone, financial, rental, internet, medical, educational or library-without showing any involvement with terrorism. Internet service providers may be forced to produce records based solely on FBI declarations that the information is for an anti-terrorism investigation.Many absurdities follow: the LawyersCommittee for Human Rights, in a study published in September, reports that 20American peace activists, including nuns and high-school students, were recently flagged as security threats and detained for saying that they were travelling to a rally to protest against military aid toColombi
A、The entire high-school wrestling team of Juneau,Alaska, was held up at airports seven times just because one member was the son of a retiredCoast Guard officer on the FBI watch-list.
B、After September 11th, 1,200 immigrants were detained, more than 750 on charges based solely on civil immigration violations. The JusticeDepartment’’s own inspector — general called the attorney — general’’s enforcement of immigration laws "indiscriminate and haphazard". The Immigration and Naturalisation Service, which formerly had a mandate for humanitarian relief as well as for border protection, has been converted into an arm of theDepartment of Homeland Security.The impact on particular groups has been devastating. The number of refugees resettled inAmerica declined from 90,000 a year before September 11th to less than a third that number, 27,000, this year. The Pakistani population ofAtlanticCounty, New Jersey has fallen by half. C、 Some 660 prisoners from 42 countries are being held in GuantanamoBay, some for nearly two years. Three children are apparently being detained, including a 13-year-old, several of the detainees are aged over 70, and one claims to be over 100.Courtrooms are being b
【分析解答题】LOSING: THE、VIRUSIn a wonderful 1943 novel, "IAm Thinking of MyDarling," by Vincent McHugh, New YorkCity is invaded by a previously unknown tropical virus that quickly grows to epidemic proportions and afflicts the entire population. The hero is a young city official, who works day and night to control the thing, but then he himself is infected and becomes a victim. He stops work and spends his time making love. That’’s the virus; all the folks in town — cops and schoolteachers, subway motormen and lawyers and delicatessen owners and dental hygienists and bail bondsmen — forget whatever they’’re doing and start doing it, right out in the open.Everybody is in love.
A、huge celebratory parade is planned — all hands hurry to FifthAvenue, with accompanying balloons and jazz bands, but in couples, so they can keep up the pairing and partying. Then the weather shifts, in mid-parade, with a cold snap blowing in from the west. The virus dies — it’’s run its course—and the happy men and women look at each other with a resumed seriousness and go home. It’’s over.This is pretty much what it was like up until the middle of last week, when the Yankees, who have been so single-minded about winning, were caught up in losing insteaD、For once, it didn’’t feel like their own doing, exactly, because almost nobody could hit the ball anymore or catch it much or always throw it to the right place; something had come over them.By Tuesday, theBronx Steinbrenners had dropped four in a row and seven out of their last ten. They’’d lost three out of four games to the hated and feared Red Sox, up at Fenway Park, and a few days later were swept by theBosox in a weekend series back at Yankee Stadium, scoring only four runs in three games. TheBombers’’ team batting average stood at . 217, the lowest in the league, and they had committed a league-worst nineteen errors. They were tied for third in their five-team division, four and a half behind the Red Sox—not a fatal handicap at this early stage of things but not at all what they or anyone else in the world had expecteD、This was miserable or delightful, depending on where your loyalties lay, but most of all it was weirD、It was glorious.The Yankees, as we know, have finished first in theAmerican LeagueEast for the past six years, and have played in the post-season for the past nine, picking up four WorldChampionships along the way. They’’ve won thirty-nine pennants in all and twenty-six WorldChampionships.
A、new Yankees promotion calls this the greatest record in all team sports, but what it also means, as every Yankee executive and coach and player and nine-year-old rooter knows, is "Win orElse. " To this end, the 2004 Yankees have amassed a record hundred-and-eighty-million-dollar payroll — more than the combined salaries of theDevil Rays, the Indians, the Tigers, and the Royals — and picked up last year’’s
A、L. Most Valuable Player ,Alex Rodriguez, to play third base. He can’’t play shortstop, his accustomed position, because the Yanks’’ captain and perennial favorite,Derek Jeter, holds prior lease on the property. They brought in two expensive new pitchers to replace the departed RogerClemens andAndy Pettitte. They did their homework, in short, and entered the long examination period of the regular season with the smug assurance of another
A、There was no end of indignation and irritation, to be sure -- especially inBoston, where the powerful and almost great 2003 Red Sox team had fallen victim to the Yankees once again last fall, after a killing eleventh-inning home run in the final LeagueChampionship game — but Yankee spending andBosox burning are standard ingredients of contemporary ball.Confirmation replaces expectation at these levels of sport, and fun feels prearrangeD、The Yankees’’ losing streak suspended all this, for a while at least, and what was refreshing about it was that the Yankees were suddenly so bad, at the plate and a field, that they seemed
A、huge celebratory parade is planned — all hands hurry to FifthAvenue, with accompanying balloons and jazz bands, but in couples, so they can keep up the pairing and partying. Then the weather shifts, in mid-parade, with a cold snap blowing in from the west. The virus dies — it’’s run its course—and the happy men and women look at each other with a resumed seriousness and go home. It’’s over.This is pretty much what it was like up until the middle of last week, when the Yankees, who have been so single-minded about winning, were caught up in losing insteaD、For once, it didn’’t feel like their own doing, exactly, because almost nobody could hit the ball anymore or catch it much or always throw it to the right place; something had come over them.By Tuesday, theBronx Steinbrenners had dropped four in a row and seven out of their last ten. They’’d lost three out of four games to the hated and feared Red Sox, up at Fenway Park, and a few days later were swept by theBosox in a weekend series back at Yankee Stadium, scoring only four runs in three games. TheBombers’’ team batting average stood at . 217, the lowest in the league, and they had committed a league-worst nineteen errors. They were tied for third in their five-team division, four and a half behind the Red Sox—not a fatal handicap at this early stage of things but not at all what they or anyone else in the world had expecteD、This was miserable or delightful, depending on where your loyalties lay, but most of all it was weirD、It was glorious.The Yankees, as we know, have finished first in theAmerican LeagueEast for the past six years, and have played in the post-season for the past nine, picking up four WorldChampionships along the way. They’’ve won thirty-nine pennants in all and twenty-six WorldChampionships.
A、new Yankees promotion calls this the greatest record in all team sports, but what it also means, as every Yankee executive and coach and player and nine-year-old rooter knows, is "Win orElse. " To this end, the 2004 Yankees have amassed a record hundred-and-eighty-million-dollar payroll — more than the combined salaries of theDevil Rays, the Indians, the Tigers, and the Royals — and picked up last year’’s
A、L. Most Valuable Player ,Alex Rodriguez, to play third base. He can’’t play shortstop, his accustomed position, because the Yanks’’ captain and perennial favorite,Derek Jeter, holds prior lease on the property. They brought in two expensive new pitchers to replace the departed RogerClemens andAndy Pettitte. They did their homework, in short, and entered the long examination period of the regular season with the smug assurance of another
A、There was no end of indignation and irritation, to be sure -- especially inBoston, where the powerful and almost great 2003 Red Sox team had fallen victim to the Yankees once again last fall, after a killing eleventh-inning home run in the final LeagueChampionship game — but Yankee spending andBosox burning are standard ingredients of contemporary ball.Confirmation replaces expectation at these levels of sport, and fun feels prearrangeD、The Yankees’’ losing streak suspended all this, for a while at least, and what was refreshing about it was that the Yankees were suddenly so bad, at the plate and a field, that they seemed
【分析解答题】Librarian need is some sort of identification with the woman’’s (21)____________ and (22) ____________.The identification the woman used is (23) ________.The woman can take (24) _____________out at a time and she also get (25) ____________to take out magazines or periodicals.
【分析解答题】The road to invention Big companies have a big problem with innovation. This was most vividly described byClaytonChristensen, a HarvardBusiness School professor, in his book, "The Innovator’’sDilemma" (HarvardBusiness School Press, 1997). Few conversations about innovation take place without reference to this influential work.The OxfordEnglishDictionary defines innovation as "making changes to something established". Invention, by contrast, is the act of "coming upon or finding: discovery". Whereas inventors stumble across or make new things, "innovators try to change the status quo," saysBhaskarChakravorti of the Monitor Group, another consulting firm, "which is why markets resist them. " Innovations frequently disrupt the way that companies do things (and may have been doing them for years).It is not just markets that resist innovation. Michael Hammer, co-author of another important business book ("Re-engineering theCorporation", HarperCollins) quotes the example of a PC-maker that set out to imitateDell’’s famous "Build-to-Order" system of computer assembly. The company found that its attempts were frustrated not just by its head of manufacturing, who feared it would lead to most of his demesne, including his job, being outsourced, but also by the head of marketing, who did not want to upset his existing retail outlets. So the innovative proposal got nowhere.Dell continued to dominate the business.Mr.Christensen described how "disruptive innovation" — simpler, cheaper and more convenient products that seriously upset the status quo — can herald the rapid downfall of well-established and successful businesses. This, he argues, is because most organizations are designed to grow through "sustaining innovations"-the sort, like Gillette’’s vibrating razor, that do no more than improve on existing products for existing markets.When they are hit by a disruptive innovation — as IBM was by the invention of the personal computer and as numerous national airlines have been by low-cost carriers — they are in danger of being blasted out of their market. This message found a ready audience, coming as it did just as giant businesses from banking to retailing, and from insurance to auction houses, were being told that some as-yet-unformed dotcom was about to knock them off their pedestal.
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