Part Two

PART TWO
Let’s Agree
to Disagree
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2.1 Anticipating the Issue
➢ How do you understand the title of the unit?
➢ What problems do you expect to be raised in this unit?
➢ What challenges does the society face today? What problems
are especially topical for Russia (your own country)?
➢ Do you think that the problems the society faces unite it or
vice versa1 turn the social gap into insuperable abyss2?
➢ Do they affect the economy of the country? How? Or maybe
cause-effect vector is the opposite one and social problems are
deeply rooted in economy? Give examples to support your
statement.
2. 1A. Man and Society
1. Are you a gregarious person, enjoying socializing, or do

you prefer to stay alone in a distant place, savouring its
tranquility3?
Read the following short extract by Margaret Horsfield, in which

she describes her voluntary confinement in a remote homestead
on Vancouver Island, seeking rest from people, telephones, dead
lines and crowds4.
In a remote place “people are very aware of each other. The

presence of a person - any person - matters. People are assumed to
be interesting creatures, and important. In the exhausting bustle of
Central London, that doesn’t always seem to be the case. I have
been lonely in the rush hour at Oxford Circus amidst the crowd. I
was never lonely in my days of solitude on the far coast of Canada.”
● Comment on the paradox, the author describes.

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Vice versa - on the opposite.
2
Insuperable abyss –– a deep empty space; a great difference, separating
people, which is impossible to cover.
3
Tranquility – calmness, quietness, and peace.
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Margaret Horsfield, The Great Escape, The Guardian, 02. 04. 91.
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● Have you ever lived in a small community or village far
from “the centres of civilization”? What was it like?
● Has this short abstract changed your attitude to solitude
and socializing?
2. Explain the meaning of the words in bold and answer the

questions that follow.
FEMINISM: The modern feminist movement stems from the

middle of the 1960s in North America. Basically the movement
seeks equal political and social rights for women. The main
theoretical assumption shared by all branches of the movement
derives from the belief that there has been a historical tradition of
make exploitation of women. Feminists are anxious to eradicate
this exploitation. Feminism is a fairly general label attached not to a
set of universally accepted postulates but to a range of beliefs with
little in common, save a desire to raise consciousness and to usher
in a more equal society.
As a result of the feminist movement and heightened
awareness of the sexist nature of some English vocabulary a number
of changes are being introduced. Attention has been focused on the
replacement of “male” words with a generic meaning by neutral
items – chairman, for example, becoming chair or chairperson
(though not without controversy) or salesman becoming sales
assistant, sometimes it is necessitated by a legal requirement. There
is a continuing debate between extremists and moderates as to how
far such revisions should go – whether they should affect traditional
idioms such as man in the street or Neanderthal Man or even All
man are born equal, or apply to parts of words where the male
meaning of man is no longer dominant such as manhandle and
woman.
● How would you explain the expression “male” words with a

generic meaning?
● Why do you think there might have been controversy about
attempts to change the word chairman?
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● What do more extreme advocates of making English sexually
neutral want to do that is unacceptable to the moderates?
● Are there male words used generically in Russian?
● Have there been attempts to change them to avoid sexual
stereotyping?
● Does using sex-biased words affect people’s attitudes to men and
women?
3. Read the text, find equivalents to the words in bold, answer the
questions.
Changes in attitudes to war
One area in which great changes occurred in the twentieth

century is in the public attitude to war and peace. The vocabulary of
war has been stripped of its former glamour and ceased to be one of
courage and patriotism. Instead it has become one of failure or of
unimaginable disaster. The “War Office” has in general been
replaced by “the Ministry of Defense”, the greatest destructive
weapons ever invented have become deterrents. Most people went
out of the century with a view of the military “virtues”, of the place
of war in a civilized society, fundamentally different from that of
the nineteenth century and earlier.
The inventor of dynamite at the end of the nineteenth century
believed that his invention would outlaw war, since the devastation
it could produce would make any major outbreak destructive
beyond imagination. After 1918 the same view was held about
aerial warfare. People had a serious conviction that a major war
would end up wiping out the cities of the industrial world. Since
1945 the possibility of nuclear annihilation has seemed to make
war between the great powers an act of collective suicide. These
factors alone have contributed to a revulsion against large-scale
military operations among thinking people in all nations – though
the world is unquestionably still full of national, ethnic and political
causes whose supporters see a resort to bullets and bombs as the
only means of achieving their aims.
(Based on “New Internationalist”, 1999)
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 ways of discouraging people from doing sth because of the
negative results;
 feeling of total disgust;
 fighting a war using aeroplanes;
 loyalty to your own country;
 total destruction by nuclear weapon;
 movements, organizations;
 make war illegal or impossible;
 most important political powers.
● How had people’s view of the place of war in civilized society

changed by the year of 2000?
● The inventor of dynamite was Alfred Nobel, who founded Nobel
prizes. How does the text help to understand why he made one of
those prizes a Peace Prize?
● What twentieth-century changes in the nature of war are
mentioned?
● What is the connection between these changes and the general
attitude to war?
● What kind of people don’t share this general attitude to war?
2.2 Raise the Issue
➢ What do you know about human rights?

➢ What differs them from constitutional rights?
2.2 A. Words in Context
1. Tick the word closest in meaning to that of the each

boldfaced word. Use the context of the sentences to help you
figure out each word’s meaning.
disparity (n) The wide disparity between men’s and

women’s pay in our company led to a
protest by the women. The management
tried to squelch the protest saying that
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the women were subversive and were
trying to ruin company morale.
Disparity means a. a combination b. a gap c. closeness
forestall (v) When the environmentalists were unable

to forestall the destruction of the forest
by legal means, they lay down in front
of the developer’s bulldozers.
Forestall means a. to keep from happening b. to
predict c. to pay for
insidious (adj) The effects of certain prescription drugs,

such as Valium, can be insidious.
People who take them may slip into
addiction without being aware of it.
Insidious means a. badly timed b. subtly harmful
c. all-powerful
insinuate (v) Instead of directly saying “Buy our

product”, many ads use slick images to
insinuate that the product will give the
buyer sex appeal, power, or prestige.
Insinuate means a. to say indirectly b. to cry
c. keep from happening
interrogate (v) In many countries political prisoners

who are being interrogated by the
secret police are likely to be tortured in
an attempt to force answers from them.
Interrogate means a. to ask questions b. to delay c. to
abuse
obsequious (adj) In a job interview, use discretion. Don’t

react as though you were being
questioned by a police officer; but don’t
be obsequious either, as if the
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interviewer were a king or queen and
you were a humble servant.
Obsequious means a. unequal in rank b. methodical
c. overly eager to please
omnipotent (adj) Small children think of their parents as

omnipotent – able to do anything,
control everything, and grant whatever a
child might wish for.
Omnipotent means a. totally good b. willing to serve
c. all-powerful
opportune (adj) Quite often we look for an opportune

moment to break some news to our
family, especially when it is far from
welcoming.
Opportune means a. appropriate b. difficult c. early
permeate (v) A sense of deep loss permeated her

after she learned about the death of
hostages. She suffered as if they were
part of her own family.
Permeate means a. to harm b. to penetrate c. to improve
retribution (n) For much of human history, before

science could explain diseases, many
people believed that any illness was a
retribution for immoral behaviour.
Retribution means a. inequality b. obstacle c. penalty
2. Write the word next to its definition. The sentences in the

previous exercise will help you decide on the meaning of each
word.
…………… Obsequious ………Overly willing to serve, obey, or

flatter in order to gain favor
………… Insinuate ………… To suggest slyly
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……… Retribution …………… Something given or done as
repayment, reward, or punishment
………… Disparity ………… Inequality or difference, as in ages
or amounts
……… Insidious …………… Working or spreading harmfully
but in a manner hard to notice; more harmful
than at first is evident
………… Permeate ………… To flow or spread throughout
……… Opportune …………… Suitable (said of time); well-timed
………… Forestall ………… To prevent or hinder by taking
actions beforehand
………… Omnipotent …………All-powerful; having unlimited
power or authority
………… Interrogate ………… To question formally and
systematically
3. Complete the text with the words from the box.
,,,,,,,,,
Human rights
Everyone who treats the question of human rights should bear

in mind that there is an enormous …… Disparity ………between a
constitutional right, which a state guarantees to its own citizens and,
sometimes to foreigners who are within its jurisdiction, and a human
right which is inherent whatever the nationality of the person is or
wherever he lives.
Human rights transcend political divisions. They are basic
minimum standards of freedom and security for all. Alleging human
rights violations, some countries have imposed economic sanctions
against others such as restriction of trade. Human rights have been
cited as a reason for military intervention against foreign countries
(although there were undoubtedly other reasons for such
intervention).
Is criticism of, and even intervention against, another country
justified? Opponents of interference argue that it is wrong to impose
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Western moral values on other cultures and it can have only ……
insidious ……effects for the community solidarity and economic
security of their nations. The governments of some countries defend
the veiling of women, applying special procedure to ……
interrogate ………...criminals and sentencing them to corporal
punishment such as cutting off the hands, as practices founded in
their religion and traditions which ensure a safe society.
However human rights organizations demand that basic moral
standards should …… permeate ………..every national act of law.
Morality and legality become connected when constitutions are
violated and citizens flee over the border into other countries
seeking political asylum (and their countries threaten them with
forcible return).
In purely legal terms most countries of the world have signed
international agreements concerning the treatment of individuals.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948
without a dissenting vote. The period shortly after World War II
was certainly an ……… opportune ……… moment to stipulate
basic human rights: equality in dignity and rights irrespective of
race, color, sex, language, religion etc. The Declaration also
proclaims entitlement to freedom from slavery, torture and cruel
punishment, arbitrary arrest and detention, the right to express one’s
opinions, to a fair, independent public hearing of a criminal charge.
However the Declaration hasn’t become an ………
omnipotent …. document binding for all governments as it doesn’t
carry the force of a treaty obligation.
So in 1966 the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights was adopted. It is not as comprehensive as the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights but it’s more important as it has
binding provisions about racial and sexual equality, torture and
slavery, freedom of thought, conscience and religion. Not all the
members of the United Nations have signed the Convention and
only 34 countries have agreed to an Optional Protocol which allows
individuals to seek …… retribution …………in a court of law
against violations of the Convention.
Legal arguments are used to … forestall ………any breach of
rights. However, when the laws of a country violate human rights,
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groups like Amnesty International protest to the government on
moral grounds. These advocates of human rights obviously deserve
respect. Rather than being ……… obsequious ……..to dictatorship
regimes, only …… insinuating ………that the laws should be
implemented and the human rights observed, they choose voicing
their protests, campaigning for prisoners of conscience and creating
publicity with the aim to speed up the release of such prisoners and
put an end to inhumane treatment.
4. Answer the following questions.
● What is the difference between human and constitutional rights?

● Why are human rights violations cited as reason for military
intervention? Why does the writer use the term “alleged”?
● What can the result of imposing Western moral values on other
cultures be, according to the advocates of traditional societies?
● What is the attitude of human rights organizations to this stance?
● What made the period after World War II an opportune moment
to stipulate basic human rights on international level? How did the
nations take the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Is it
binding for all the governments?
● How does Amnesty International react on the laws violating h
human rights?
2. 2 B. Listening and Watching
 Watch multimedia programs 1151, 1521, 1597, 1631 and be

ready to discuss them.
2.2 C. Creative Consolidation
1. Write a synthetic review of the information from the text and

multimedia programs, supporting it with the data from Russian
sources.
2. Write a 350-word essay developing one of the following theses:
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 “All men are created equal.” Thomas Jefferson (1743 -1826).
 “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” Abraham Lincoln (1809
-1865).
 “No one can be perfectly free; no one can be perfectly happy till
all are happy.” Herbert Spencer (1820 – 1903).
 “Nationalism is an infant disease. It is the measles of mankind.”
(Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955).
 “Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.” Bertolt Brecht
(1898 – 1956).
 Politics is too serious a matter to be left to politicians.” General
de Gaulle (1890 – 1970).
 “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do
for your country.” John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963).
 “There is no such thing as a free lunch.” Anonymous.
3. Write an article about the reasons for tyrants’ and dictators’

success in politics and their quite common failure in business.
2.2 D. Roots of Terrorism
➢ Social stability as well as the survival of humanity is now

challenged by the acts of terror, targeted at affluent and poor
countries alike. What are the aims and roots of terrorism?
1. Read the article and say whether you agree with the
writer’s stance on the problem.
Breeding Grounds of Terrorism5
The problem of terrorism which has recently come to the

forefront in many countries has a long history. However because of
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Based on T.N. Shishkina “War on Terror”, Moscow 2002; R. Antonovsky
“New realities of terror”, 2004; B. Kagarlitsky “The end of tolerance?”,
Novaya gazeta, 2002; K. Siroezhkin “Genuine Terrorism”, Continent, №21,
2001; the interviews with Anthony Johns, financial analyst, FORD motor
company, UK, B. Nadezhdin, State Duma deputy, RF.
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its numerous faces and breakneck speed of evolution the theory
quite often can’t keep pace with it.
Some scholars attribute first instances of terrorism to Biblical
times beginning with the exodus of the Israelites and the tyrannical
regime of Herod. They will allude to the Roman Empire, riddled
with violent terror, Norman invasion, importing terror, the attack on
Pearl Harbour, the regimes of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, ambushes of
guerrilla groups both during World War II and later.
However the term terrorism is hardly applicable to such
historical events or atrocious regimes as mass destruction and acts
of massacre were trivial in those years. Terrorism, the way we
understand it today, appeared later, when states gained stability,
ideas of humanism acquired predominance and priority of human
life began to permeate every national act of law.
Terrorism by nature is so difficult to define that governments
of the world cannot agree on one single definition. There is no
debate however about emotional responses in the victims, those hurt
by the violence and those affected by the fear (as well as in those
who commit them), conjured by acts of terror.
Though there is still much confusion over what terrorism is it
can be defined as the calculated use of violence to inculcate fear;
intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the
pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.
This definition was crafted to distinguish between terrorism
and other kinds of violence. The tendency to label as terrorism any
violent act is erroneous. Terrorism is a specific kind of violence.
Terrorists generally know what they are doing; their selection of
target is planned and rational. They know the effect they seek.
Terrorist violence is neither spontaneous nor random. Terrorism is
intended to produce fear; it is an act conducted for its impact on the
audience.
It rates a mention that terrorism is not ingrained within
human nature although some groups see violence as the only means
of expressing the voice.
Talking about the roots of terrorism some will see a clear
connection between religious and territorial aims. They will speak
about the Palestinians waging war against a Jewish state though
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there are no disputes with the state of Jordan, which occupies most
of the area called Palestine since 1948.
They tend to underestimate social and political factors which
are of paramount importance. The globe is split into “golden
billion” and the rest of the world with the preponderance of the
worst-off and inadequately educated. Poverty and illiteracy are
the major breeding grounds of modern terrorism. Religious
factor is secondary. The crux is that Christian population
predominates in the countries traditionally attributed to “golden
billion” whereas Muslims mostly live in the poorest ones. With
mass unemployment in the zones of conflicts for many people
terrorism becomes the only way to provide for the family. More and
more young people can do nothing else but to fight.
Another contributing factor for terrorism is disenchantment of
ethnic minorities. Mass exodus from Asia and Africa to Europe has
become reality. Its cause is not only in the desire to escape from
poverty and settle down in more affluent countries. Europe itself can
no longer survive without immigrants for reasons far from
demographic. The economic model, shaped in the 80-s of the
previous century, insinuates the introduction of social apartheid.
About one third of the society is doomed to the destiny of outsiders.
If the population is culturally and ethnically identical it promises
impending catastrophe, turmoil and even revolution. In such cases
ethnical division of labor becomes essential. Ethnic minorities find
themselves in dead-end jobs without any chances of upward
mobility. Originally insidious signs of resentment gradually
degenerate into overt hatred. Younger generation is even more
frustrated, they don’t adhere to obsequious attitude to life typical of
their ancestors. These “new minorities” are only too easy to recruit
for terrorist missions.
It is interesting to examine the link between the disparity of
financial and economic status of the countries nurturing certain
terrorist groups and their aims. The ones thriving in less favorable
conditions tend to focus on foreign targets, whilst the groups
emanating from wealthier countries vent their anger against the
national ones.
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The bottom line, however, is that both ethnical and religious
grounds of all the conflicts only screen their true roots which are
without fail economic. Wars for redistribution6 of territories and
scarce natural resources are the real engines of terrorism.
Recent examples have shown that modern terrorist leaders can
hardly be called disadvantaged (Bin Laden) or having religious or
territorial claims. It will be not far-fetched to say that they quite
often seek omnipotence, power and notoriety.
We should admit that international terrorism is evolving and
changing constantly.
In a world of inequality there will always be the
disadvantaged, those that seek territorial superiority, or want to
convert us to their beliefs.
However, the essence of terrorism hasn’t changed: to wreak
havoc, death and horror for the sake of some idea. Terrorists are
still ready to kill, either driven by some revolutionary ideas or
hatred to dissidents from their cause. In the past, the Vikings or the
Romans could wreak terrible violence but on a relatively local scale
whereas contemporary terrorism can harness modern technology
and even weapons of mass destruction to inflict evil on global scale.
Sacred right for national self-determination today ranks
higher than the right of the country for territorial integrity, and
individual’s rights gain priority over the safety of the whole
society. Impunity7 engenders8 over-permissiveness. Being worried
about the rights of national and religious minorities, liberal
democracy trapped itself in a tight corner having to struggle for
the rights of those who are alien to any norms or rules and ready to
sacrifice the lives of many to achieve the desired.
Finally, terrorism won’t exist without mass media coverage.
The acts of terror are executed not for the sake of god but for
publicity. They are just pointless if nobody knows about them. And
we should put the blame not on terrorists but on mass media for
that. They try to capitalize on Freud’s famous postulate that other
people’s death creates the delusion of your own immortality. That’s
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redistribution – reallocation of the assets
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impunity- staying unpunished after the wrongdoing
8
engender – be the cause of the situation or feeling
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why even the weather forecast starts with the coverage of natural
calamities.
What are the top priority measures to forestall international
terrorism?
Some politicians stick to the opinion that terrorism can never
be totally defeated.
But it’s imperative to make it more difficult for terrorism to
succeed. This vigilance9 will certainly result in a reduction in the
quality of life for us all by the imposition of added security on our
daily life.
Another important factor is to bridge the widening social and
cultural gap between the countries, to build fair global society.
It is also evident that only an international coalition can create
opportune conditions for combating terrorism. Retribution
counterattacks are hardly efficient in the long run. Military
retaliation is not sufficient and measures must be taken to eliminate
the breeding grounds of violence. It can be undertaken only by
ensuring that no country provides tactical or political assistance to
terrorists and their supporters.
2. Find these expressions in the text and explain their

meaning.
come to the forefront, breakneck speed, keep pace with,

acquired predominance, inculcate fear, definition was crafted, it
rates a mention, is not ingrained within, preponderance of the worst-
off, breeding grounds, is doomed to, dead-end jobs, upward
mobility, vent their anger against, the bottom line, wreak havoc,
harness modern technology, inflict evil, sacred right, ranks higher,
territorial integrity, gain priority over, trapped itself in a tight
corner, natural calamities, stick to the opinion, imposition of added
security, bridge the widening social and cultural gap, combating
terrorism, military retaliation.
3. Match the following words with their definitions.

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vigilance – careful attention given to what is happening, so that you will
notice any danger or illegal activity.
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a. more important than all others- paramount
1. instance b. come from a particular place emanate
2. atrocious c. example instance
3. massacre d. cruel atrocious
4. intimidate e. become worse degenerate
5. paramount f. provide the necessary conditions for something to
6. resentment develop nurture
7. degenerate g. killing of a lot of people massacre
8. nurture h. make someone frightened especially so that they
9. emanate will do what you want intimidate
10. convert i. change your beliefs or persuade someone to do it
11. delusion convert
12. vigilance j. in idea that is not true delusion
k. anger and unhappiness caused by unfair
treatment resentment
l. careful observation vigilance
4. Match the pairs of antonyms.
1. eliminate- create a. influx

2. thrive- whither b. fascination
3. calculated- spontaneous c. whither
4. erroneous- correct d. spontaneous
5. exodus- influx e. create
6. disenchantment- fascination f. correct
5. Answer the questions.
- Why isn’t the theory ready to define the nature of terrorism?

- Why is it wrong to classify wars and atrocious regimes as
terrorism?
- When did terrorism appear?
6. Do you agree with the writer’s stance on the following

issues:
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 roots of terrorism;
 unchangeable essence of terrorism;
 measures to forestall international terrorism?
2.2 E. Group Discussion. Brainstorm Ideas.
● The article touches upon social apartheid and ethnical labor

division in many countries. Can our country survive without
immigrants? What kind of jobs do they usually take? Do they have
chances for upward mobility? What conditions do they live in?
What can be done to integrate them into society? What are the
ways to combat illegal immigration? Are they really necessary?
2.2 F. Vocabulary in Focus
1. Read the following sentence from the text paying special

attention to the word in the italics. What is its meaning?
In a world of inequality there will always be the

disadvantaged, those that seek territorial superiority, or want to
convert us to their beliefs.
Match the words, characterizing people’s beliefs, with their

explanations.
adherent (of) someone with strong unreasonable beliefs, thinking

that the others are wrong bigot
convert (to) someone who has extremely strong beliefs,
especially religious or political zealot
radical a supporter of extreme political change, either of a
left- or right-wing nature radical
reactionary a person who supports a particular idea or party
adherent (of)
bigot someone who has taken on a new set of beliefs
convert (to)
zealot someone opposed to change or new ideas
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reactionary
2. Complete the sentences with the words from the previous

exercise.
1. It had been said that …… converts …….to a religion can often be

much more active supporters of the religion that people who were
born into it.
2. Muslim …… reactionaries……in a number of countries strongly
oppose to women’s unveiling.
3. The new director was a …… bigot…. who viewed all female-
employees as underclass.
4. The new measures were opposed by ……… zealots………
within the party.
5. The reform was initiated by a group of young… radicals………..
6. He is an … adherent …….of a strange blend of Buddhism,
Hinduism, Islam and Christianity.
3. Read the following sentence and explain the meaning of

the expression in italics.
They will speak about the Palestinians waging war against a

Jewish state though there are no disputes with the state of Jordan,
which occupies most of the area called Palestine since 1948.
Look at the words in the box. They are all connected with
war or military actions. Use the words from the box to complete
the sentences.
, , , hostilities, , , , , ,
1. He believed that …… ceasefire …….would hold giving them at

least temporary rest.
2. He was captured and his army was routed
3. Armed police Ambushed from behind the hedge.
4. A UN peacekeeping troops force has been sent there.
5. The government has pledged to wage war on drugs.
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6. They should call a truce while negotiations are given a chance.
7. The first election after 25 years of dictatorship was held in the
presence of numerous international observer
8. The company’s offices were besieged by hundreds of people.
9. His speech had an effect of incendiary device leaving many in
shock or at least in despair.
2.2 G. Listening and Watching
 Watch multimedia programs 1753, 1667, 1151 and be ready to

discuss them.
2.2 H. Creative Consolidation
1. Make a synthetic review of the information from the article and

multimedia programs, supporting it with relevant information
from Russian sources.
2. Write an essay on economic methods of combating terrorism.
3. Project-Making
Diversity of opinions has often been postulated. Nevertheless

xenophobia and group alienation remain part and parcel of
contemporary period. How can you explain this incongruity? What
can be done to correct this discrepancy and teach people tolerance?
Think of the possible practical steps a) on community level; b) on
national level.
2.3 Raise the Issue

➢ What usually precipitates the upheaval of crime in the
country?
➢ What should be done to forestall it?
➢ What retribution must criminals face?
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auspicious (adj) Common wisdom says that auspicious

start is a sign of successful progress.
Auspicious means a. deceptive b. indirect c. favourable
complement (v) White wine is said to complement some

meals and red wine to add the finishing
touch to others, but many people can’t
tell the difference.
Complement means a. go perfectly with b. reach out for
c. to overpower
discreet (adj) The mayor’s affair with one of her aides

was discreet – they were very quiet and
careful about it – but the truth eventually
came our anyway.
Discreet means a. honest b. cautious c. obvious
expedite (v) To expedite payment on an insurance

claim, be sure to include all the
necessary information on the form
before mailing it in.
Expedite means a. to hasten b. to reduce the cost of
c. to delay
extenuating (adj) “Yes, my client robbed the bank,” the

lawyer said, “but there were
extenuating circumstances. She didn’t
have the time to wait in line to make a
withdrawal.”
Extenuating means a. providing a good excuse
b. assigning blame c. encouraging
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fastidious (adj) Tilly was a fastidious housekeeper who
vacuumed every day, dusted twice a
day, and never allowed so much as a
pencil or safety pin to be out of place.
Fastidious means a. working quickly b. having insight
c. very particular
flout (v) The men in the warehouse flouted the

company’s new regulations about sexual
harassment: they covered the walls with
pinups.
Flout means a. to mock and defy b. to put into effect
c. to show off
fraudulent (adj) Leroy was jailed for filing fraudulent

income tax returns. He had been
cheating the government for years.
Fraudulent means a. inferior b. deceitful c. careless
heinous (adj) Millions of people were shocked

recently by the news reports of a
heinous act: a woman had starved her
little daughter to death.
Heinous means a. unplanned b. detailed c. wicked
implicit (adj) In our society, a wedding invitation is

also an implicit request for a gift.
Implicit means a. unusual b. unstated c. unintended
obtrusive (adj) My brother’s stutter is often hardly

noticeable, but when he is nervous or in
a hurry, it can become obtrusive.
Obtrusive means a. overly obvious b. greatly improved
c. unplanned
rebuke (v) Although my boss scolded me many
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times in private, I’m grateful that he
never rebuked me in public.
Rebuke means a. to criticize b. to make excuses for
c. to hit
redeem (v) Ricardo’s parents were angry with him

for neglecting his chores, but he
redeemed himself by washing and
waxing their car.
Redeem means a. to reveal b. to punish
c. to make up for the past errors
transgress (v) Adam transgressed by eating an apple

Eve had given him; God punished them
both.
Transgress means a. benefit b. tell a lie c. commit offense
vehement (adj) Edna was vehement in her opposition to

the proposed budget cuts. She let
everyone in the department know just
how strongly she felt.
Vehement means a. strong b. secret c. unjustified

word.
………………… Characterized by trickery, cheating, or lies

………………… To treat with scorn or contempt; defy
insultingly
………………… To restore oneself to favor by making up for
offensive conduct; make amends
………………… Undesirably noticeable
………………… To speed up or ease the progress of
………………… To sin or commit an offense; break a law or
command
………………… Wise in keeping silent about secrets and other
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information of a delicate nature; prudent
…………………. Intense; forceful
…………………. Extremely evil; outrageous
…………………. Serving to make fault, or guilt less serious
through some excuse
…………………. Suggested or understood, but not directly
stated; implied
………………… To scold sharply; express blame or
disapproval
…………………. To add (to smth or smb) what is lacking or
needed; round out; bring to perfection
……………….. .. Extremely attentive to details; fussy
…………………. Being a good sign; favorable; encouraging
3. Using the answer line provided, complete each item below

with the correct word from the box. Use each word once.
Complement, heinous, implement, discreet, extenuating,

fraudulent, implicit, auspicious, fastidious, expedite, flout,
rebuke, obtrusive, redeem, vehement
1. Express lanes in supermarkets …………. the checkout process

for shoppers who buy only a few items.
2. Bob wasn’t worried after being arrested. He believed there were
…………. circumstances.
3. When Tony was interrogated in the police for possessing cocaine,
police officer’s response was far from ……………. “Tell your story
to the judge, kid. I’ve heard it all before”.
4. To outsiders, a nudist colony seems to ……….. all standards of
modesty. The nudists – who prefer the term naturists – say they are
just living naturally.
5. Harriet Tubman, the 19th century champion of antiracism course
is said to have had several qualities that ……………..(ed) each
other and facilitated her mission – knowledge, intuition, sense of
time.
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6. The judge ……….. (ed) the charlatans for “violating the public
trust”, and fined them thousands of dollars for engaging in
fraudulent advertising.
7. Kay said only, “It would be reasonable not to discuss the missing
funds in front of Debra.” But her ………… meaning was “I think
she stole them”.
8. After showing up late for the fund-raising dinner and then falling
asleep during the speeches, the politician tried to ………. himself
with a public apology.
9. Tracy knew she had ……….. (ed) against family wishes when
she sold the ring her grandmother had given her.
10. “Loose lips sink ships” was a famous World War II slogan. It
warned Americans to be ……………. and not to say anything that
might reveal military plans. All other nations at war also had similar
slogans.
11. The huge, sprawling new mall seemed ………… in the quiet
little country town.
12. In spite of his “tough guy” image Ernest Hemingway was
………….. about using words; he rewrote the ending of one novel
forty-four times.
13. The art dealer was involved in a ……………. scheme to pass
off worthless forgeries as valuable old paintings.
14. The decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki has been debated for half a century: was it a …………..
crime on the part of the United States, or was it a necessary action to
win the war.
15. The owner of our company is …………. in his insistence that
managers implement a plan to communicate better with workers in
subordinate position.
2.3 B. Roots of Crime
➢ What factors help to create a criminal: social, individual, or

combination of factors?
1. Read the article and say whether your vision of breeding

grounds of crime differs from the writer’s?
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Roots of Crime10
Whenever the question of the social roots of crime arises the

researchers of the problem will resort to strain theory and start
speculating about criminal underworld, providing for the security,
safety, shared interests of its members, segregated from the rest of
the society. Those authors take solace in the knowledge that crime is
engendered in the underprivileged world where poverty,
unemployment, obtrusive overcrowding in poor physical conditions
and a lack of leisure opportunities other than the pub expedite the
process of transgression against laws and morals and a drift into
criminal career.
An urban underworld forms an occupational community which
is especially auspicious for the development of a subculture with
implicit norms of criminal behavior, slang, and a special spirit
sustaining the shared identity. Central to underworld code is the
injunction11 not to inform on others. Association with other
criminals complemented by the lack of association with the targets
of crime inhibits any remorse about sustaining the shared identity.
The underworld, however, in the past decades has been
fundamentally altered by the urban redevelopment of the inner-city
areas and dispersal of the population to the suburbs. It now forms an
extended social network rather than a particular physical locale.
Crime character has also changed. In the previous century law-
abiding community viewed burglary, violence against person,
gambling, and prostitution as the most heinous acts. However today
they are considered “petty, unsophisticated, unorganized, brutal and
largely unprofitable”.
Growing affluence and, in particular, the increasing scale of
business activity have given rise to project crime when criminals are
10
Based on J.Fulcher and J.Scott, Sociology and R.Stark, White-Collar
Crime.
Injunction - an order given by court forbidding sb to do sth; a piece of

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advice from sb in command.
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especially fastidious about planning. Project crime involves a much
smaller number of large thefts. To implement their plans criminals
have to organize themselves more effectively: improved safes,
alarm systems, and security vans require advanced discreet planning
and a much higher level of cooperation. It is not unknown that
people of high respectability have been associates in such crimes.
But a learned scholar once an epitome of cool, will be
confused by the question about the frequency with which high-
status people commit crimes themselves. With vehement anger this
supporter of the thesis that crime and deviance are caused by pains
of poverty and want will rebuke you saying that it’s the case for
psychotherapists rather than researchers of law as those people are
simply crazy.
Now however a new concept of white-collar crime is gradually
gaining ground. White-collar crimes are committed by “a person of
respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation”,
and they quite often involve violations of trust. Though zealous
advocates of strain theory believe that those people involved in
fraudulent shams need medical rehabilitation rather than prison
sentence and their wealth is extenuating circumstance and a proof
that the crime was committed in the fit of insanity, their opponents,
now numerous, will refute this argument. They maintain that if
upper-status people flout the rules of the society they shouldn’t
redeem themselves by just making amends. There is no disparity in
motivation impelling the poor and the rich to break the law. Princes
as well as paupers can be overcome by greed and temptation.
2. Find the following expressions in the text and explain

their meaning.
resort to strain theory, segregated from the rest of the society,

take solace in the knowledge, is engendered in, sustaining the
shared identity, dispersal of the population to the suburbs, growing
affluence, give rise to project crime, an epitome of cool, white-
collar crime, violations of trust, in the fit of insanity, making
amends, be overcome by greed and temptation.
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3. Match the words with their definitions.
1. drift a. the place where something happens

2. injunction b. change
3. inhibit c. small, unimportant
4. alter d. a slow and gradual change
5. locale e. make difficult
6. law-abiding f. force to do something
7. petty g. behavior different from the norm
8. brutal h. extremely violent
9. deviance i. to prove a statement is wrong
10. concept j. an idea of something existing
11. refute k. an order from someone in command
12. impel l. obeying the rules of the society
● What do you think the essence of strain theory might be?

● Why do researchers take solace in the knowledge that crime is
engendered in the underprivileged world? What is the implication of
this statement?
● Why has the underworld been altered?
● How has crime character changed?
● What is project crime?
● What is white-collar crime? Why does any mentioning of it cause
many researches’ vehement reaction?
5. Speak about roots of crime in our country. Are they

absolutely similar to those mentioned in the article?
2.3 C. Vocabulary in Focus
1. Choose the correct answer.
1. He was charged with a ……... of currency regulations.

a. break b. breach c. disrespect d. observance
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2. Our insurance policy offers………. against the risk of burglary,
accident or damage by fire.
a. care b. cover c. relief d. security
3. He was arrested for trying to pass ………notes at the bank.
a. camouflaged b. counterfeit c. fake d. fraudulent
4. Smugglers consistently ……… import regulations.
a. break b. flaunt c. float d. flout
5. Mr. Black was ………. twenty pounds for drinking and driving.
a. charged b. fined c. ordered d. penalized
6. If the terrorists are not sent to prison, there will be a public …….
a. attack b. onslaught c. outcry d. recrimination
7. The judge recommended more human forms of punishment for
juvenile ………
a. convicts b. delinquents c. sinners d. villains
8. Mr. Syere was charged with ……… the funds of the
organization.
a. misappropriating b. mislaying c. mistaking d. misplacing
9. The girl was arrested for shoplifting but she got off the ……… by
explaining that she was mentally ill.
a. case b. suspicion c. hook d. rope
10. Tom was dropped from the golf club because he failed to
………. by the rules.
a. abide b. comply c. behave d. obey
2.3 D. Listening and Watching
 Watch multimedia program 1753 and be ready to discuss

them.
2.3 E. Creative Consolidation
1. Make a synthetic review of the information in the article and

multimedia program, supporting it with relevant data from
Russian sources.
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2. Some researchers today contend that films provide criminals
with ready–made plans for project crime. Write an essay on the
influence of mass media stimulating violence and crime.
3. Project-making
Develop one of the following issues. Devise practical steps.
 Possible ways of criminals’ rehabilitation.

 The necessity of medical rehabilitation for those involved in
white-collar crime.
 The demand for more severe punishment for those involved in
white-collar crime as it should be regarded as the most heinous
infringement of law, involving violation of trust.
 The involvement of businesses in prevention juvenile crime.
2.4 Raise the Issue

➢ The problem of drug abuse has become extremely topical
worldwide. No country or stratum of society is immune from its
malicious effects. Why has it happened?

attrition (n) Colleges and Universities try not to have

a high rate of attrition. They want
students to stay until graduation rather
than drop out early.
Attrition means a. an increase in number b. ill health
c. a natural loss of individuals
contend (v) John contended that smoking hadn’t

hurt his health, but right after making
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that claim, he had a fit of coughing that
lasted ten minutes.
Contend means a. conceal b. realize c. declare
eradicate (v) Joyce and Steven’s adopted son was

abused in an earlier home. They’re
working hard to eradicate the
lingering12 effects on him of that
experience.
Eradicate means a. reveal b. regulate strictly c. erase
exhort (v) On the eve of the decisive battle, the

general exhorted the troops to fight
bravely for their homeland.
Exhort means a. accuse b. praise c. urge
impede (v) Muddy roads impeded the progress of

trucks bringing food to the refugees.
Impede means a. oppress b. hinder c. include
inundate (v) After his brief announcement, the

President was inundated with questions
from reporters.
Inundate means a. flood b. strengthen c. go around
germane (adj) Stacy visited certain internet sites to find

information germane to the topic of her
scientific thesis.
Germane means a. damaging b. related c. foreign
mandatory (adj) A new accounting system will soon

become mandatory for all departments.
Mandatory means a. delayed b. binding c. optional
panacea (n) Ravi thinks his trouble would be over if

Lingering – lasting for a long time, especially when it is unpleasant or
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unnecessary.
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he just had a lot of money. But money
isn’t a panacea; it wouldn’t solve all his
problems.
Panacea means a belief b. a basic necessity
c. a universal remedy
perfunctory (adj) Most of the candidates were passionate

on the subject of nuclear weapons, but
one spoke in a very perfunctory way,
apparently bored with the topic.
Perfunctory means a. uninterested b. enthusiastic
c. exaggerated
recourse (n) “Unless you pay your bill,” the company

threatened, “we’ll have no recourse but
to sue you”.
Recourse means a. a way out b. a problem c. a question
stringent (adj) Professor Jasper has the most stringent

standards in the department. Passing her
course is difficult; getting an A is next to
impossible.
Stringent means a. different b. flexible c. demanding

word.
…………………Ordered by a law or rule

…………………To claim to be true
…………………Strictly controlled or enforced; strict; severe
…………………A gradual natural decrease in number;
becoming fewer in number
………………. To cover as by flooding; overwhelm
with a large number or amount
………………. Having to do with the issue at hand; relevant
………………… To delay or slow; get in the way of
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………………. Something supposed to cure all diseases, evils;
cure-all
………………..To urge with argument or strong advice; plead
Earnestly
……………….. Done only as a routine, with little care or
interest; performed with no interest or enthusiasm
……………… A source of help, security or strength
………………..To get rid of altogether; wipe out
3. Using the answer line provided, complete each item below

with the correct word from the box. Use each word once.
Mandatory, contend, attrition, inundate, germane, impede,

stringent, panacea, exhort, perfunctory, recourse, eradicate.
1. The construction work at the mall ………..(e)d shoppers, who

had to step around piles of planks, cables, crates tools, and sacks of
cement.
2. In the past, workers often had no ……….. when employers
discriminated against them. Today, however, they can seek help
from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
3. Craig is ……….(e)d with bills, but he keeps on squandering
money. He’s oblivious to his financial problems.
4. The company doesn’t sanction the policy of laying-off workers. It
believes that the optimum way to reduce the staff is by ………..:
employees who quit or retire simply aren’t replaced.
5. It’s ……….. to take a firm stand on gun control in our country.
6. After serving a prison term for theft, Charlie is contrite 13. He’s
decided to begin a new life as an honest citizen and ………....... all
traces of his sordid14 past.
7. Our city has many different crime-related problems, but the
mayor has only one solution to offer: more police officers on the
streets. She believes an enlarged police force is a ………….
13
Contrite – very sorry or ashamed because you have done something wrong.
14
Sordid – Indecent; morally low; corrupt.
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8. The instructor as well as the other students became irritated when
Susan kept asking questions that weren’t ……….. to the class
discussion.
9. Elected officials should be held to a …………. code of ethics,
requiring them to avoid even the appearance of wrongdoing.
10. Former principal had made only ……….. efforts to rid the
school of drugs, but the new principal attacked the problem head-
on. As a result, the school has undergone a metamorphosis from
“hooked” to “clean”.
11. Critics of school system ……… that not enough emphasis is
placed on creativity at all levels of education, as a result young
people are not accustomed to making their own decisions and
accepting responsibility for them.
12. The school counselor gave an impassioned speech to the
parents, in which she ………(e)d them to make every effort to keep
their children off drugs.
2.4 B. Legalization of Drugs? Yes/No?
➢ What do you think about the possibility of legalization of

drugs?
1. Read the article.
“Just Say ‘No’ to Drugs”?15
Opinion polls have shown that Americans view the

widespread use of drugs as the number one problem in the United
States, where drugs are illegal. Every year the United States spends
$8 billion on its war on drugs, mostly on the cost of law
enforcement and prohibition, such as the recently imposed
15
Based on Carol Numrich, Raise the Issue//Just Say ‘No’ to Drugs?, The
Holland Model, Longman Publishing Group, 1994; Frederick B. Campbell,
To Control Drugs, Legalize, The New York Times Company, 1990
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mandatory drug testing of athletes and state and federal employees.
Because drugs are illegal, they have become very expensive. Black
market prices for heroin and cocaine, for example, are estimated to
be 100 times greater than the cost of production. With such prices,
drug pushers can earn more than $20 billion each year by pushing
their wares in even the poorest neighborhoods. Most people agree
that the so-called "drug war" is far from being won in the United
States. Consequently, it has become an obsession for many
Americans to find some solution to the drug problem.
One proposal is to fight the problem by making drugs legal.
This proposal has, in fact, been the cause of a lengthy, unresolved
debate. Ever since the 1970s, Americans have deplored this extreme
measure of legalizing drugs questioning its efficiency in decreasing
drug use. People who support this proposal believe that the current
policies of prosecution and punishment are a waste of money. They
feel that more money should be spent on education and treatment,
arguing that the black market drives the prices of drugs too high,
providing an incentive to get into the drug business. They point to
the gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s who disappeared with the end
of the prohibition of alcohol in America. If drugs were made legal,
they say, drug dealers would lose their big incomes, and drug-
related crime would decrease.
They contend that legalization would not mean that pushers
would be given free rein. The basic strategy of controlled
legalization would be to deprive pushers of their steady and most
lucrative customers—namely, addicts. The smaller market would
cause the attrition of the number of pushers.
The idea of legalizing addictive drugs conjures up images of
streets inundated with addicts and crack being sold like cigarettes at
corner newsstands or heroin like whiskey at local bars.
But legalization need not be anything like those frightening
images. Indeed, a carefully controlled legalization could be the key
element in a strategy to put drug pushers out of business.
Legalization would not mean that addictive drugs would be
legally available to every one. The purpose of legalization would be
to place better controls on access to such drugs. Advocates of legal-
ization see drugs as a health problem rather than as a criminal
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justice problem. As it is now, they say, anyone who is caught using
drugs is treated as a criminal, not as an addict who needs help.
Addiction would be recognized as a disease or physical affliction.
For people who have that disease, the substance would be legal.
Licensed clinics would be allowed to provide drugs to such
addicts—and only to them—in the same way that many addictive
prescription drugs now are legally provided to specific categories of
patients. For nonaddicts, the substances would remain illegal in the
same way that it now is criminal to sell or use prescription drugs
without a prescription. Legalization would not condemn addicts to
oblivion.
Controlled legislation would be the best way to ensure that
addicts get all possible assistance to help them get off drugs.
Controlled legislation would amount to the recognition that
addiction is a disease, rather than a crime. Under the current system,
in which addicts are regarded as criminals, the drug culture attracts
people who are alienated by mainstream society. This is an
especially severe problem among the inner city poor, but it also
strikes suburban youth of the middle and upper classes. Many
adolescents pass through rebellious stages in which petty criminality
may seem desirable. Very few, however, aspire to be diseased.
The proponents of drug legalization cite the example of
Holland which is certainly germane to the case. In this country, the
drug policy is administered by the Minister of Welfare, Health, and
Cultural Affairs. The policy takes a different view of drug problems.
Rather than wage a war on drugs, the Dutch have chosen to employ
an approach called Harm Reduction. Essentially, what this approach
assumes is that no country will ever be able to eradicate drug-abuse
and become "drug free," so the best approach to solving drug
problems is to use methods that minimize the damage drugs do.
In the 1970s, many young people were drawn to the city of
Amsterdam because it was so easy to get marijuana and hashish
there. Holland’s attitude toward the use of these drugs was quite
relaxed. In the late 1970s, Holland went even further in relaxing its
drug policies by eliminating criminal proceedings against hard-drug
users. They also established clinics to administer methadone, a drug
used as a substitute for heroin in drug treatment. The idea behind
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this policy was to treat addiction as a medical problem rather than a
criminal one.
One of the key elements to Holland's drug policy is the
distinction they make between soft drugs (marijuana and hashish)
and hard drugs (heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, LSD, etc.). The
Dutch policy holds that, if the two worlds of drug use don't get
mixed up, it will impede the shift to hard drugs after experimenting
with soft drugs. Actually, the selling and using of soft drugs is
illegal in Holland, but the police, prosecutors, and judges have
developed a tolerant attitude toward them, as long as they are not
done excessively. This attitude has been referred to as "flexible
enforcement" in Holland. In Amsterdam, there are coffee shops with
eight kinds of "illegal" marijuana on the menu. The Dutch believe
that if people can freely buy and smoke the drug in such
establishments, they will be less likely to try more dangerous drugs.
Of course, critics of the Dutch model have pointed out that Holland
is different from other countries, so their drug policies may not be
so easily adopted in other contexts. The drug policies in Holland,
which encourage forms of treatment that do not necessarily end
addiction but do improve addicts' physical and social well-being,
may not be most appropriate to other countries' situations. The
Dutch like to use the analogy of their relationship to the sea in
describing their drug policies: Holland is surrounded by water, a
means of livelihood, but at the same time a threat. Though the
Dutch have never conquered the sea, they have succeeded in
controlling this "enemy."
It is evident that controlled legalization of addictive drugs
would not be a panacea for America's epidemic. But it would offer
the hope of putting drug pushers out of business. Even if some
addicts continued to seek drugs from pushers rather than licensed
clinics, controlled legalization could have great benefits. If a large
proportion of addicts used clinics rather than pushers, the number of
pushers would decline.
This proposal for legalization has been supported by a variety
of leaders, from the most conservative to the most liberal, from
secretaries of state to federal district judges who advocate the sale of
drugs at prices resembling their costs. These supporters also favor
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the legalization of soft drugs, such as marijuana and hashish.
Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke has been a leader in advancing the
policy of legalization. For years Schmoke worked as state
prosecutor and had to deal with the many deaths of law-enforcement
officials from drug-related crimes. Frustrated by the unsuccessful
policies to control drugs, and responding to the requests of his con-
stituents to take a more aggressive position in dealing with the drug
problems of his community, Schmoke decided to take a hard-nosed
approach to changing the current drug policies: He exhorted to
legalize drugs.
The proposal to legalize drugs has not been accepted easily by
all Americans, however. In fact, it has taken a lot of flak over the
years. Those who oppose the legalization of drugs not only consider
it perfunctory treatment of this serious problem but also feel that
decriminalizing drugs would be surrender in a drug war that has not
really even begun. For them, the recourse is not to decriminalize
drug crime but enforce more stringent control and make laws more
severe. They point out that legalization would lead to greater drug
use, explaining that, with drugs such as crack being so common in
our cities, there would be an increase in cases of crime and child
abuse and an even greater spread of AIDS. Crack is known to cause
people to become violent and, when used with dirty needles, spreads
disease. Opponents of legalization also point to China. When drugs
there were made legal, the selling of opium increased and fanned
the drug trade rather than slowed it down. Those who oppose
legalization also raise important questions such as: Which drugs
would be legalized? Would the state or the individual administer the
drugs? Would the government have to support facilities that sell the
drugs with tax money? Would the black market really disappear
with the legalization of drugs?
So, is it time to recognize that the current war on drugs is not
working and accept that legalization may be the only solution?
Every few years, voters are asked to cast their votes for politicians
who claim to have answers to this question. But as of yet,
Americans have not chosen legalization as a solution to their
country's drug problems.
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2. Find the following expressions in the text and explain
their meaning.
pushing their wares, unresolved debate, questioning its

efficiency, condemn addicts to oblivion, get off drugs, amount to,
cite the example of, attitude toward use of these drugs was quite
relaxed, seek drugs from pushers, prices resembling their costs,
favor the legalization, take a more aggressive position, administer
the drugs, to cast their votes.
3. Match the words with their definitions.
1. pusher a. a serious problem

2. incentive b. something used instead of something else
3. free rein c. a boy or a girl, changing into a young person
4. conjure up d. stimulus
5. affliction e. deal with the situation the way you like
6. adolescent f. want to achieve something
7. aspire g. to bring a thought or idea to somebody
8. substitute h. seller
9. analogy i. criticism
10. hardnosed j. to make someone feel an emotion more strongly
11. flak k. tough
12. fan l. a comparison between two situations or
processes
4. Match the pairs of antonyms.
1. surrender a. permission
2. distinction b. exclusive
3. prohibition c. unprofitable
4. lucrative d. win
5. frustrated e. happy
6. mainstream f. similarity
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- Who is the drug policy administered by in Holland?

- What approach have the Dutch chosen to employ? Why?
- How is this approach different from mainstream drug war
philosophy?
- Why were so many young people drawn to Amsterdam in the
1970s?
- How has the situation changed in the past years? What is the cause
of this change?
- What is the key element to Holland’s drug policy?
- What is the main argument of the critics of the Dutch model?
- Why do the Dutch allude to the picturesque analogy with the sea?
6. Read the following statements. Do you think the author

would agree (A) or disagree (D) with them? Write A or D next to
each statement. .
1. Legalizing drugs means crack will be sold like cigarettes.

2. Legalizing drugs would impede the drug pushers' business.
3. Addictive drugs should be legally available to addicts.
4. With legalization, drug pushers would disappear.
5. If drugs were legalized, police officers would be able to spend
more time stopping drug pushers.
6. Drug legalization will be beneficial only if no addicts continue to
buy their drugs from pushers.
7. If there were fewer drug pushers in the world, there would be
fewer drug addicts in the world.
8. Drug addicts should be allowed to get drugs to help them
overcome their addiction.
9. Drug addiction should not be treated as a crime.
10. Adolescents may get involved in drugs because the idea of
crime is attractive.
11. The legalization of drugs will solve most of our drug problems.
12. Even though we don't know whether legalization will work, we
should try it.
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2.4 C. Watching and Listening
 1. Listen to the commentary by Linda Chavez and circle the

best answer.
What has Congress a. decriminalize drugs

been willing to do b. debate proposals to control drugs
this year? c. say "no" to the legalization of drugs
Which proposal was a. to punish drug-related murderers by death

included in the b. to make mandatory drug testing illegal
House bill on drugs? c. to refuse the use of illegally gathered
evidence in criminal trials
What is the Senate a. fight the House bill

trying to do? b. speed up the voting process
c. establish a committee before the vote
What are politicians a. change their constituents' minds about

eager to do, drugs
according to the b. delay a decision on the drug problem until
commentator? November
c. find a way to make the drug problem
disappear
What policy is a. the death penalty for drug-related murders

favored by b. decriminalization of drugs
conservatives? c. reducing the profit made from drugs
What policy is a. longer prison sentences for drug-related

favored by liberals? crimes
b. legalization of drugs
c. stronger law enforcement
What argument does a. we would be giving in to the drug war.
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the commentator b. drug use would increase.
have against c. more children would be born drug addicts.
Schmoke’s
approach?
According to the a. the hard truth about drugs will finally be

commentator, what faced,
will happen to the b. drug dealers won't be able to sell drugs so
drug market if we easily,
legalize drugs? c. pushers may make more money.
How do most a. they generally support the "just say no"

Americans deal with drug policy,
the drug problem? b. they really try to face the drug problem,
c. they only talk about it.
● What do you think of Schmoke’s approach? Do you think it can

be workable in our country? Give your reasons.
● Do you have the same opinions now, or have you changed your
opinions in any way after examining the views of others?
2.4 D. Group Discussion. Brainstorm Ideas.
● Is legalization of drugs a viable decision for our country?

● What are the possible alternatives to combat the problem of
ubiquitous usage of drugs in our country?
2.4 E. Creative Consolidation
1. Make a synthetic review of the information from the article, the

journalist’s commentary, and Russian sources.
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2. Write an essay developing the following issue.
- The problem of drug abuse is “getting younger”. What are

the best ways to avert children and teenagers from drug addiction?
3. Project-Making.
Develop one of the following theses:
 Drug legalization could be an appropriate solution to the drug

problem in our country. Give your reasons. Devise the programme.
 Many people believe that the money used to punish drug users or
drug pushers should be used for education instead. Do you think this
change in spending would decrease drug use in Russia? Why or why
not? Devise special programmes, aimed at antidrug education of the
population.
 Devise economic methods to combat drug abuse on a)
community, b) regional, c) national level.
2. 5 Reading Selection
➢ Look through the articles and choose one for
presentation. Find at least one more article on the same topic and
make a synthetic review. 16
■ 2.5 A. More on When to Die17

by William E Buckley, Jr.
I had at school a most provocative professor who liked mean

questions, meanly formulated, because be liked to make his students
think—"an agonizing alternative in your case," he might have said.
One day it was announced that medical science had come through
16
The articles in this section reflect the position of their writers and do not
necessarily coincide with the stance of the author of this book.
17
Taken from the "On The Might" column by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Copyright® 1988, Dist. Universal Press Syndicate.
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with a cure for, I forget what it was: some form of pneumonia,
"What," the professor said, "are we supposed to die of?" And indeed
if it were all an abstract game, and we counted 977 extant terminal
diseases for each one of which medical science in due course came
up with a cure, that would leave us nothing to die from save just
plain decomposition of the flesh. It is generally agreed, if I read
science correctly, that this is the one process that cannot be
arrested. Inevitably, human beings being rational animals, thought
is given to such questions as: Are there preferable ways to die than
through biological decomposition?
A provocative book was published last year. It is Called
Setting Limits, with the explanatory subtitle, Medical Goals in an
Aging Society. Its author, Daniel Callahan, is what one calls a
bioethicist, someone who considers the ethical implications of
biological developments. Mr. Callahan is the director of the
Hastings Center, which he founded, and which inquires into such
questions as—well, setting "limits" to viable lifetimes.
Callahan tells us that at the current rate of increase in
longevity, the cost of maintaining the most senior population in
America will by the end of the century (which is not very far away)
come to $200 billion a year. Mr. Callahan is not a penny-pincher,
but his point is that we may be engaged in subsidizing a great deal
of agony as the result of our preoccupation with keeping people
alive at any cost.
Most Americans are familiar with the creeping availability of
what the lawyers call "living wills". These vary from state to state
but have in common their search for a legal instrument by which an
individual can, with forethought, specify the conditions under which
he desires to be permitted to die. What Callahan uniquely advances
is the idea of a living will in effect generally accepted by society at
large, and one that focuses on a particular age. For instance, how
would one greet the proposal that no publicly funded nursing home
or hospital could finance a costly operation (say a heart bypass) for
anyone over the age of 85?
The prospect of a corporate position on the right age to die is
properly horrifying. Callahan goes so far as to include as an accept-
able stratagem the removal of food and water from old people who
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are insensate and would not feel the pain of their mortal deprivation.
Such a proposal is shocking to moralist Nat Hentoff of The Village
Voicet who comments, "If an old person is diagnosed as being in a
chronic vegetative state (some physicians screw up this diagnosis),
the Callahan plan mandates that the feeding tube be denied or
removed. No one is certain whether someone actually in a persistent
vegetative state can feel what's going on while being starved to
death. If there is sensation, there is no more horrible way to die."
And then medical experts tell you that the cost of feeding insensate
people is about the most inexpensive thing in medicine. True, it
costs $20,000 a year to maintain someone in a nursing home. But to
feed such a person through tubes costs only $10 per day.
The root question—here Hentoff wins the argument, I think—
is moral, not
empirical. If life is a divine gift, as Christians are taught to
believe it is, then interruptions of it by acts of commission (suicide)
or omission (a refusal to accept medical aid) are wrong. What the
bioethicists search for is the ground in between. And the influence
here of Pope Pius XII's exhortation in 1957 is critical for many
Catholics and non-Catholics. What he said was that although no one
may collude in any act of suicide, neither is the Christian required to
take "extraordinary measures" to maintain life. In the famous case
of Karen Ann Quinlan in New Jersey, the priest and the courts
authorized the removal of the respirator from the comatose patient
(ironically, she lived on for nine years).
The whole business torments, especially since more and more
people have come into personal contact with the dying patient who
comes to look upon medicine as a form of torture, given that its
effect is to prolong life, and to prolong life for some is to prolong
pain. No doubt, in the years to come, a working formula of sorts
will emerge. It is critically important that it accept the moral
implications of the question, If a society is ready for euthanasia, it
has rejected the primary attribute of life: namely, that it is God-
given.
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screw up – to make a bad mistake.
extant – existing in spite of being very old.
penny pincher – a person unwilling to spend or give money.
living will – a document explaining what medical or legal decisions
should be made if you become so ill that you cannot make those
decisions yourself.
longevity – long life; the length of a person or animal’s life.
forethought – a careful thought about what needs to be done in
order to make sure things happen well in the future.
corporate – shared by or involving all the members of a group.
stratagem – a trick or plan to deceive an enemy or gain an
advantage.
exhortation – a persistent attempt to persuade someone to do
something.
Vocabulary
provoke – to cause a sudden reaction: provoke sb to do sth;

provoke sb into doing sth; provocative – intending to make
people angry or to cause a lot of discussion; provocation.
viable – able to work successfully; a viable
proposition/alternative/method; economically/commercially
viable; viability (n).
insensate – not able to feel things, inanimate; unreasonable and
crazy: insensate rage.
collude – to work with someone secretly especially in order to
cheat or deceive other people: collude with; collusion.
torment – to make someone suffer a lot, especially so that they feel
guilty or very unhappy; torment (n): in torment.
torture – to deliberately hurt someone to force them to give you
information, to punish them, or to be cruel: tortured by guilt;
torture (n).
attribute – a quality or feature, especially one that is considered to
be good or useful; attribute (v): attribute to – to say that sth is
caused by something.
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1. Study the following statements and discriminate between
the true and false ones.
- There may be preferable ways to die than through biological

decomposition.
- We may need to explore the idea of setting limits to viable
lifetimes.
- We are spending too much money to keep people alive.
- A "living will" for society may be necessary in the future.
- It is acceptable to remove food and water from old people who are
insensate.
- We can't know whether someone in a chronic vegetative state can
feel what's going on.
- It's not expensive to feed a person through tubes.
- Euthanasia is a moral, not an empirical, question.
- Life is a divine gift.
- No one should collude in any act of suicide.
- To prolong life for some is to prolong pain.
- Society must be ready for euthanasia.
2. Find the words in the article that have similar meaning to

the following.
Nouns
Suffering; state of mind in which something takes up all thoughts;
long life; careful planning; trick or device to deceive; legal
documents indicating conditions under which patient can be
permitted to die.
Adjectives
still in existence; continual; causing death; able to exist; relying on
observation and experiment; likely to cause interest or argument;
without the power to feel or experience; coming on gradually;
stopped.
Verbs
causes severe suffering; granting money for; conspire or plot; orders
or requires.
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3. Do you think the author would agree with the following
statements?
1. Families should have the ultimate power to decide the fate of a

family member in a persistent vegetative state.
2. Extraordinary measures should be taken if it means keeping a
person alive.
3. Modern medicine can be torture.
4. Euthanasia may be the least cruel treatment for a patient.
5. We need to set limits to viable lifetimes, especially in an aging
society.
6. "Living wills" are a good solution to the problems posed by
modern technology.
7. It is costing society too much money to keep people alive at all
costs.
4. Express your own opinions on the above statements.
5. For discussion.
1. Do you have the same opinions now, or have you changed your
opinions in any way after examining the views of others?
2. In your opinion, what role should doctors take in advising
patients and/or their families in these cases? What is their
responsibility?
3. Derek Humphry is the executive director of the Hemlock Society,
an organization that promotes public awareness and acceptance of
euthanasia. He predicted that active euthanasia will be a standard
part of American medicine within a decade. If this is true, what
effect will it have on society?
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■ 2.5 B. Back to the Nest18
by Sherry Joe
Just as parents kick back and relax, their adult children

return. How do families make the best of the new
circumstances?
Short of bolting the door or moving without a forwarding

address, how do parents get rid of children they thought were fully
grown and gone?
David Heath, 45, just had to wait it out. His daughters waited
until they were 20 and 23 to trade the four-bedroom home they
shared with Heath and their grandparents for their own quarters in
Oxnard.
"They felt it was time for a little bit more independence," says
Heath, a counselor and advocate for the physically disabled at the
Independent Living Resource Center in Oxnard. "I'm glad they're
out, but I miss having them around."
"Boomerang children"—adults largely in their 20s and 30s
who either return home temporarily or postpone leaving because of
economic pressures, emotional upheavals and their parents' longer
life expectancy—are finding it takes longer and longer to duplicate
Mom's and Dad's standard of living.
The number of boomerang children totals about 5 million and
increases each year by 1%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In
1983, 54% of adults ages 18 to 24 lived at home. Now, 57% live
with their parents, experts say.
As a result, a growing number of middle-aged parents who
expected an empty nest are confronting parenthood again—or still.
Robert Sheehan, 54, of McLean, Va., whose 25-year-old
daughter and 24-year-old son returned home this year, says he
misses the peace he and his wife enjoyed.
"We have the space for them, but we both lose the privacy we
gained when they were both at school," Sheehan says.
18
Sherry Joe, "Back to the Nest," Los Angeles Times, October 28, 1991.
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And Sandi Carstensen, 49, of Oakland, says she's looking
forward to the day when her two sons, ages 19 and 22, move out so
she and her husband can retire.
"I would probably like a smaller house with a half-acre of land
—something flat, so I could have a garden," Carstensen says.
Parents can help boomerang kids move out quickly by setting
a time limit, charging them rent or drawing up a contract, says
Phyllis Jackson Stegall, co-author of the 1987 book "Boomerang
Kids: How to Live With Adult Children Who Return Home."
"Parents ask me, 'How do we set a time limit?' The child is
becoming all too comfortable [at home]," says Stegall, a Seattle
psychotherapist.
For parents facing the return of a grown child, Stegall and
others offer these tips:
• Establish ground rules before allowing your child to come
home. "Parents should expect that the child become a fully
functional family member, that the child come here and pull his own
weight," she says.
• Parents should duplicate conditions in the real world as
much as possible at home. If the "boomeranger" has no money,
demand household chores in lieu of rent.
At various times, David Heath says, he charged his daughters
rent. "When there were problems with money, I let them slide," he
recalls. "It was more principle than the money. I had just decided,
when you're 18 years old and not going to school, you have to pay
your own way."
• Parents and children should draw up an agreement or
contract that stipulates how the family will function together—for
example, '"I agree to mow the lawn twice or three times a week.'
'You are expected to have a job in two months,'" Stegall says.
Contracts help prevent many conflicts between parents and children.
• Once your children have jobs, they should be expected to
pay rent on a gradually increasing scale. If they are flipping
hamburgers, rent could be $2 5 a week until a more lucrative job is
found.
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Karl Carstensen, 22, didn't begin paying rent until he had a
full-time job as a police services technician in Oakland. Now he
pays his parents $325 a month.
• Shared housing remains the best alternative to living at
home, says Sheehan, a consulting economist with the National
Apartment Assn. "Rent a house and double up with roommates,"
Sheehan advises young adults. "Be willing to accept something less
than they're used to. For generations, that's the way you became a
homeowner."
Many young adults say they are reluctant to share housing
because it doesn't reflect true independence. "They had a room of
their own. When you have shared housing, that's not true," Stegall
says. "You have a shelf in the refrigerator, a curfew on TV.
Karl Carstensen agrees.
"You know it's not yours," he says. "There's no sense that you
belong to an apartment."
• Just as important as allowing children to return home is
being able to lock them out, Stegall says. Refuse to admit
"boomerangers" who are addicted to drugs or alcohol or who abuse
family members.
• Do not permit your child to live at home when there is not
enough money or space.
• Say no to children who repeatedly ask to come home.
Instead, offer advice over the telephone. "You're really doing
something loving for them," Stegall says.
According to Stegall, many young adults are reluctant to
sacrifice material comfort for financial independence because they
were spoiled as children.
"Because they were raised with so, much, they feel they were
entitled to have whatever they wanted without any real effort," she
says.
But some stay-at-homes have a different opinion.
Connie, a 23-year-old USC graduate who declined to give her
last name, supported herself for six months before returning to her
parents' Northridge home to save money.
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"I felt I was wasting money," says Connie, who was spending
more than $1,000 a month on rent, bills and dining out at trendy
eateries.
Now that she's at home, Connie plans to save about $500 a
month—from the money she spent on rent—for a down payment on
a town-house.
Even more important, she says, living conditions have
improved. "My house happens to be much nicer than my
apartment," says Connie, who shared a duplex with three
roommates. "It's always clean. Even if you have the best roommates
in the world, you have to worry about who's going to do the dishes."
Jeffrey Kim, 24, also chose to live at home until he graduates
from Cal State Los Angeles next year. In the meantime, he provides
a valuable service for his parents, Korean immigrants who do not
speak English fluently. :" "I do a lot of paperwork for them," Kim
says. "I talk to lawyers, the phone company...."
Others didn't have a choice.
According to Korean tradition, 23-year-old Ann Choi is
expected to stay at home until she marries—or can afford a down
payment on a house.
"It's 50-50," Choi says of the chances of realizing either
option. "It could go either way."
The former USC sociology major earns about $21,000
annually as a customer service representative for a thread
manufacturer. Choi saves about $200 a month but doesn't know
when she will move out.
Right now, she says, she enjoys spending time with her close-
knit family.
"Even if I wanted to [move], I'm used to my parents," Choi
says, "As far as major decisions, I made them on my own, but I'm so
used to a big family, I knew I would get homesick."
But tension blossoms in even the best of families.
"I like to drink more than [my sisters] do and stay out late and
go in pubs and cafes," says Choi, who says her parents "trust me
100%."
That doesn't stop Joon Choi, 53, from worrying about her
daughter.
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"I get heart palpitations," Choi says. "You know L.A.—there's
too many crazy drivers. I worry about them until they come home."
Rules about the shower and kitchen are the most common
conflict in the Carstensen household.
"Karl doesn't stay with the family chores," Sandi Carstensen
says. "Even if he is paying rent, we shouldn't have to tell him,
'You're supposed to clean the shower.'"
Some parents actually may have difficulty in letting their
children leave.
For example, divorced parents who raised their children on a
family battleground may feel guilty and want to atone by inviting
them back home during hard times, says Stegall, who advises
parents to concentrate on the future.
"You can't say mea culpa, mea culpa forever," she says.
Some parents also are reluctant to abandon the care-giver role
that has become their source of identity, she adds.
"This was my identity. I was a parent, a mom," Stegall says of
those who refuse to cut the cord. "When this opportunity presents
itself, I'm all for it."
Whatever the reason for delayed independence, the
phenomenon has caught many parents off guard.
David Heath, whose daughters recently moved to a two-
bedroom beachfront apartment, remembers when financial
independence was synonymous with high school graduation.
"When I was 17,18,19 years old, a couple of guys could rent a
real decent apartment on Seal Beach for $150 a month," Heath says.
"Now, even if you spend one-quarter of your income [on housing],
you still live in a depressed neighborhood."
As a result, parents and children alike may need to alter their
expectations of independence, Stegall says.
"Everything is geared toward leaving home," she says. "In our
culture, we raise children to be independent. [Parents and children]
need to reorder their expectations."
But changing times have not dissuaded Sandi Carstensen from
her principles.
"I don't believe in letting them freeload," she declares. "That's
not teaching them to be responsible."
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Culture
boomerang – if a plan boomerangs on sb it affects them instead of

the person who it was intended to affect.
pull one’s own weight – to do your full share of work.
in lieu of – instead of.
curfew – the time after which everyone must stay indoors.
catch sb off guard – to surprise sb by doing sth that they are not
ready to deal with.
close-knit –having strong friendly relationships.
Vocabulary
chore – a job that you have to do regularly, especially work that you
do to keep a house clean: household chores: something you have
to do that is very boring and unpleasant.
stipulate – to say that something must be done, when you are
making an agreement or offer: stipulate payment in advance;
stipulate that sth be done; stipulation – a specific condition that is
stated as part of an agreement: stipulation that.
reluctant – slow and unwilling: reluctant to do sth; reluctance
(n); reluctantly (adv).
sacrifice – to willingly stop having sth you want or doing
something you like in order to get something more important:
sacrifice sth for; sacrifice sth to do sth; sacrifice (n): make
sacrifices; human sacrifice; sacrificial (adj); sacred ( adj):
sacred cow – a belief that is so important to some people that they
will not let anyone criticize it.
trendy – influence by the most fashionable styles and ideas;
trendy (n) – someone who is trendy because they want other people
to think they are very modern; trendsetter – someone who starts a
fashion; trend (n): trend in/towards; reverse a trend (= makes a
trend go in the opposite direction); underlying trend; set the
trend.
atone – to do sth to show that you are very sorry for having done
something wrong: atone for; atonement.
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tension – nervous feeling; lack of trust; tense (adj): tense
moment/atmosphere; tense up (v); tensed up.
blossom – to produce flowers (about trees): blossom out – to
become happier, more beautiful; blossom (n): in full blossom.
dissuade – persuade sb not to do sth: dissuade sb from doing sth;
dissuasion.
- Why does the writer provide such a great number of examples?

- What does the author advise to head off potential trouble in
families?
- What is a recommended alternative to living in your parents'
home?
2. Brainstorm ideas.
1. Professional writers and journalists have certain readers in mind

—their "audience"—when they write. In your opinion, was this
article aimed at parents of adult children or at the adult children
themselves? Is it biased toward either group? Use evidence from the
article to support your view.
2. Which parents or adult children do you personally identify with?
Describe and explain.
3. In the article the psychotherapist Stegall says that today's
economy forces U.S. citizens to "alter their expectations of
independence." This is a tall social order. Do you think this
"reordering" can occur? Is it already occurring?
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■ 2.5 C. The Migration Fallacy19
Based on the article by Saskia Sassen
Each phase of European Union enlargement has raised the

spectre of mass migrations from poverty to prosperity. The prospect
of new influxes has lately prompted concerns that western Europe
will be unable to absorb such movements.
But Western Europe actually has a history of assimilating mil-
lions of immigrants, albeit with difficulty. That is why, following
five centuries of intra-European migration, Europeans are a rather
mixed people: one-quarter of French people, for instance, have a
foreign-born parent or grandparent; in Vienna, the figure is 40 per
cent. How did Europe achieve this integration?
Immigration hovers20 in the penumbra21 of official European
history. If anything, Europe has traditionally thought of itself as a
continent of emigration, not of immigration. Yet immigration is part
of the landscape. In the 18th century, when Amsterdam built its
polders and cleared its bogs, it brought in northern German workers.
When the French built their vineyards, they employed Spaniards.
When London built its water and sewerage infrastructure, the Irish
provided the labour. In the 19th century, when Baron Haussmann
rebuilt Paris, he brought in Germans and Belgians. When Germany
built its railways and steel mills it used Italians and Poles.
This was not immigration on a small scale. Europe - not the
Americas, as is usually thought - was the main destination for Ital-
ians in their century of emigration from 1876 to 1976. About 12.6m
Italians went to other European countries, lm more than emigrated
to non-European countries. And while the US was the country that
received the largest number of Italians - with 5.7m - France was not
19
Based on SASKIA SASSEN’s “The migration fallacy”, Financial Times,
December 27, 2004.
20
Hover – to keep in the same position for example in the air (talking about
birds), however the word projects the idea of being in a state that may change
at any time or of being close to some negative experience awaiting you.
21
Penumbra – an area covered by the outer part of a shadow, so that it is not
completely dark (but it is not in the limelight either)
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that far behind, with 4.1m. Switzerland, smaller still, received 4m,
Germany 2.4m and Austria 1.2m.
Three features of these migrations of the 18th, 19th and 20th
centuries are relevant today. One is the intensity and short duration -
often about 15 years - of periods of high demand for immigrants.
There is a strong possibility that Europe will need more immigrants
- and sooner than Europeans think - given the continued demand for
low-wage workers and the forecast that the population of the EU's
15 pre-enlargement members will have dropped by 88m by the end
of this century. A second feature is the astounding capacity of Euro-
pean countries to absorb immigrants - more than 20m since the
Second World War. The final feature is the extent to which big
immigration flows - such as Turks and Moroccans - consisted
disproportionately of groups - such as Kurds or Berbers - with
strong reasons for leaving their home country.
What is clear from history is that most Europeans do not want
to emigrate. The same trends can be expected when it comes to the
EU's new members. Most emigrants are likely to be from very
specific groups, such as the Roma, or, in a novel development, from
among the middle-class young, who increasingly think of
themselves as "Europeans". The Roma will come to stay, the young
mostly to play for a while before returning home.
From a modern perspective, these historic flows of immigrants
look comparatively easy to handle. Most were moving from
countries that are now long-term members of the EU. Today,
migration between those countries is uncontroversial. But in their
time, such movements were a much more sensitive issue. These
migrants were the outsiders - they looked different and they had
different cultures. Although, over the centuries, many of today's EU
citizens can trace themselves back to these migrations, when they
arrived in their new countries, they seemed overwhelmingly alien to
the inhabitants. Anti-immigrant sentiment was common.
Today, these same religious, racial and cultural differences are
invoked22 by those who believe assimilation of immigrants is
impossible. The historical record suggests Europeans were equally
22
Invoke – (here) to mention a law, principle, or idea in order to support an
argument or to explain an action.
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negative about those who today are considered insiders: German
and Belgian workers in France, Italians in Germany, and so on.
Europe's highly developed sense of civic and political com-
munity meant that the division between insiders and outsiders was
clear. To incorporate newcomers required work and it took
generations to achieve; to contemporaries, it often seemed an
impossible task. The key to this struggle was political innovation.
Indeed, this is the enduring legacy of assimilation of outsiders: it
forced nationals of European countries to develop and strengthen
their civic and political institutions. Europe's highly regarded
burghers started out as outsiders, fighting for rights against the
nobility. Every big immigration phase pushed Europeans to invent
legal instruments to handle the matter. Immigrants today are part of
the complex, highly heterogeneous "We" of any developed society.
Racism is still alive and well, but so are membership rights.
Europeans' highly developed sense of political membership
made it hard to absorb new immigrants, but it also forced them to
come up with formal rules for including outsiders. Such innovation
was part of the fight against the many natives who used existing
institutions to argue against inclusion. In many ways, the history of
the EU's development is the ultimate example of this effort.
Public debate today neglects this history of hard civic, political
and legal work. In the past, we crafted incorporation over decades.
But these days - when products and services are readily available to
tackle just about any problem - the expectation seems to be that, if
there is not an instant solution, there is no solution at all.
The writer, a professor of sociology at the University of
Chicago, is author of Guests and Aliens (The New Press)
Culture
bog – an area of ground that is always wet and soft.

mill – a factory where a product such as cotton, wool, or steel is
made.
the nobility – people in the highest social class who usually have
titles, for example dukes, earls: of noble birth.
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heterogeneous – consisting of many different types of people or
things; ant. homogeneous.
contemporary – someone alive at the same time as a particular
event or person.
astound – to surprise or shock someone very much.
novel (adj) – new or unusual (a novel solution to the problem.
Vocabulary
relevant – (+to) important and connected directly to what is being

discussed or considered; relevance (relevancy) (+of) (n): of
relevance to sth.
absorb – to make a small group, organization etc become part of a
larger one: absorb sth into sth – to allow ideas, methods etc to
become part of your own way of thinking or culture; absorbed
(adj) (+in) – interested or involved in sth; absorbing (adj) – very
entertaining; absorption (n) (+of, into).
sensitive – reacting strongly or emotionally; needing to be dealt
with carefully; needing to be protected, or kept secret; showing that
you care about someone or something (+to); sensitively (adv);
sensitivity (n).
trace – to find sth or sb that you are looking for by asking questions
and getting information: trace sb to sth, to trace sth back to sth –
to discover the origin of something or how it developed; trace (n):
disappear/vanish without trace; a trace of.
overwhelming – much larger, stronger etc than anything else in a
situation: overwhelming majority; overwhelming odds;
overwhelming desire, emotion, feeling, need, sense;
overwhelmingly (adj); overwhelm (v) - to affect someone’s
emotions in a very powerful way, to surprise someone very much;
to defeat an opponent especially by a lot of points, goals.
enduring – lasting for a long time; endure (v) – to suffer sth
unpleasant or difficult in a patient way over a long period;
endurable (adj); endurance (n) – the ability to continue doing sth
physically difficult or unpleasant for a long period: beyond
endurance.
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legacy – money or property that you arrange for someone to have
after you die; sth such as tradition or problem that exists as a result
of sth that happened in the past (+of); sth that someone has achieved
that continues to exist after they stop working or die, ex. A legacy of
out imperial past: legacy system – a computer system that is still
used although it is no longer the most modern or advanced, because
it would be very expensive or difficult to replace it.
instant – (adj) immediate, ex. instant solutions; prepared in a very
short time (about food or drink), usually by adding some hot water,
ex. instant coffee/soup; instant messaging – the activity of
communicating with sb directly over the Internet and replying to
their messages as soon as they arrive; (n) an extremely short period
of time, that ends almost immediately, moment: in an instant, at
the particular instant; instantly (adj) - immediately.
1. Do you think the writer would agree with the following

statements?
- Mass immigration is always intrinsically connected with political

oppression.
- Though Europe has always been considered the continent of
emigration, it has a long history of large scale immigration.
- The process of assimilation was simpler in the past.
- Thanks to highly developed sense of civic and political rights the
division between the insiders and outsiders was clear.
- Modern European society is homogeneous.
- There is a host of quick and simple solutions to the problem of
immigration.
- What are the main features of contemporary migration?

- What makes the process of assimilation so sensitive?
- What stimulated the invention of legal instruments to handle
immigration?
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- What is the implication of the article? What can you say about the
process of migration in our country? Is the situation novel or can it
be traced back to the past?
- According to the writer the process of assimilation has never been
simple in Europe nevertheless they managed to devise instruments
of incorporating newcomers into their society. What can be done to
civilize the situation in Russia?
■ 2.5 D. Muslims against Terrorism: Please Stop

Yellow Journalism23
By Syed Soharwardy
The unfair treatment of western media towards Islam and

Muslims is not new to many people. The biased reporting,
stereotype stories and hidden hate towards Muslims of the world are
facts of western journalism. These champions of the free world who
claim that their reporting standards are very high, they are honest
and feel responsible to provide correct information to their
audiences are in fact, have dual standards of reporting. They
intentionally dramatize a situation in order to market their programs
and increase their market share at any cost. They are not honest
when a news item or a story involves a practicing Muslim or
religion of Islam.
The Muslims of North America, Europe and Australia have
been under a constant threat from these media organizations. These
media organizations including all TV network, most of the Radio
stations and all-major newspapers of North America, Europe and
Australia have been controlled / influenced by special interest
groups. These special interest groups through the western media are
not only misleading the people of North America, Europe and
Australia but also trying to build walls between Islam and the
people of other faiths such as Christians and Jews.
Based on Syed Soharwardy, Please Stop Yellow Journalism: Muslims
23
Against Terrorism-struggling for justice, Alberta T3G 3N8, Canada, Email:

Soharwardy @Home.com
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These media organizations are purposely creating a very
wrong image of Islam and Muslims. The main objective of these
media organizations is to create, through their own judgments, such
a horrible image of Islamic teachings that the people in the west not
only consider Islam as a threat towards western cultures but also
feel threatened by the Muslims. A common person who is very busy
to fulfill his / her economic and social needs and does not have time
to investigate the situation, heavily depends upon the media
reporting. If TV, Radio and the Newspapers are not honest in their
reporting then the listeners or the readers of western media will not
be able to get the truth. Rather, it creates misunderstanding among
the various religious and ethnic groups, which creates animosity,
hate and intolerance for each other. The Muslim minority of North
America, Europe and Australia has been suffering from this unfair
and very biased treatment of the media for a long time.
Every time when an incident of terrorism happens anywhere in
the world the Muslims living in Western World specially in North
America gets terrorized by the horrors of the news media. The way
newscasters on radio and TV broadcast and print media prints the
news, it's always very clear that all these newscasters and reporters
not only try very hard to find a Muslim name to be associated with
the incident. These journalists who portray themselves as the
champions of humanity and professionalism become so
unprofessional and inhuman that sometime they do not realize the
outcome of their hurried and rushed reporting. You may be asking
what proof do I have to support my arguments. Let me give you
some examples from the recent memories.
On April 19, 1995 the Murrah Federal building in downtown
Oklahoma City was bombed. The media speculated and blamed
Muslims for the destruction and killings of innocent civilians. TV
networks including CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, CBC projected and
propagated Muslims as terrorists and Islam as the religion of
intolerance. Many Muslims became victims of this malicious
propaganda. However these reports were completely false, there
was no Muslim connection in this bombardment. Two
fundamentalist Christians were convicted in this case. But no media
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organizations identified 27-year-old Timothy McVeigh and his ex-
Army buddy, Terry Nichols as Christian terrorists.
Here is another example. On October 31,1999 EgyptAir flight
990 crashed off the coast of Massachusetts. All 217 passengers died
in the crash. Because of the previous lessons learned the media did
not jump to the Muslim connection quickly. But as soon as media
reporters found out from the flight voice recorder that the Captain
has said some prayers before the crash, they made astonishing and
very ignorant remarks about these religious supplications. They
assumed that the Captain said these prayers because he was going to
commit suicide and destroy the entire plane with him. This shows
how knowledgeable these investigators are? And how
knowledgeable these media reporters are? A Muslim makes such
prayers / supplications everyday when he / she starts the journey OR
when he / she is in danger of an accident. These supplications do not
indicate that the pilot was committing suicide. They prove that he
was seeking God's help. By the way, these supplications also prove
that the pilot was knowledgeable about the teachings of Islam and
he must have known that suicide is a major sin in Islam. But media
took these supplications as an opportunity to once again misguide
the people about the Islamic beliefs and project Muslims as killers.
We can quote several similar incidents where no Muslim was
involved in the incident but media used its twisting techniques and
told the wrong information. Media always tried to portray Islam as a
religion of terror and all the Muslims as terrorists. The way talk-
show programs and news are produced and presented, it seems that
the media has already decided the guilty verdict regardless what
would be the outcome of an investigation.
Why the media would not tell about the religious affiliation of
a terrorist if he or she would not be a Muslim? But when a Muslim
individual is involved in any terrorist incident, his / her name is
identified later but his / her religion is identified first.
Why do CNN and other network TV stations identify a group
of people who attack Israel from Lebanon as Muslim extremists?
Why aren’t the people who retaliate from Israeli side identified with
their religious affiliation regardless whether they are defending
Israel or attacking the enemies of Israel? If one group is identified
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with its religious affiliation and the other group with its country
affiliation, this proves how biased and unfair these reporters are?
Either both groups should be identified with their religious
affiliation or both should be identified with their country affiliation.
During the visit of Pope Paul II to holy lands, Larry King of
CNN invited various distinguished Christian and Jew guests in his
show "Larry King Live" to talk about religious harmony. But Larry
was unable to find a single Muslim scholar for this show. I do not
think that Larry does not know that the largest population of that
region where Jesus (peace be upon him) was born is Muslim. Pope
was not only welcomed by Christians and Jews but the majority of
the people who attended his masses and gatherings were Muslims.
Pope visited the most sacred places of all three religions. But Larry
King invited only Christians and Jews not a Muslim? This may not
be very important but it shows how Larry King and CNN think.
Islam means Peace and Muslim means a believer from whose
hands and tongue the others are safe. It is not possible that a true
Muslim can be a terrorist. I am not trying to say that at present
times, the entire Muslim community is perfect. I am not saying that
the Muslim community does not have any bad element, for example
religious extremism of some of the self claimed Muslim scholars
who practice and preach violence in the name of Islam to benefit
their own personal interests. These people have misused the concept
of Jihad and gave their own interpretation to it. What I am trying to
convey is a request to the entire media organization to be fair and
honest in their reporting. Treat the Muslim community as you treat
the Christian and Jewish communities.
In case of a Christian or a Jew, you are able to separate an
individual action from his / her community action, why are you
unable to do the same thing with Muslims? Just like Christianity or
Judaism, Islam forbids its followers to harm or kill or make hostage
anyone. While the media can understand the teachings of
Christianity and Judaism why they have difficulty in understanding
similar teachings of Islam? Is this intentional? Why do media
organizations not want to play a positive role in bringing the
followers of Islam, Christianity and Judaism together? Why do
these media organizations treat a Christian or a Jew different than a
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Muslim? Why are these media organizations afraid of Islam and
Muslims? The problems of extremism do exist in Muslim
community just like in Christian and Jewish communities. Why is
the problem in Muslim community exploited more than the
Christian or Jewish communities?
A terrorist should be identified and condemned as a terrorist
but a terrorist should not be identified with his / her religious
affiliation. Why a terrorist who happens to be a Muslim is identified
as a Muslim terrorist? How about the terrorists of other religions?
Why aren't they identified and associated with their religions? The
white Supremacist groups in the Western world are fundamentalist
Christians. Why aren’t their terrorist attacks on Blacks and other
ethnic groups reported and associated with their religion. Unless, the
people who believe in justice for all are united to standup for their
rights, the media will continue to create a negative image of
Muslims and Islam.
Culture
champion – someone who publicly supports or defends a set of
beliefs, political aims, or a group of people (+of).
dual standards – unfair treatment of similar problems because of
political or economic reasons.
faith – strong belief in a god or gods: blind (=unreasonable) faith.
animosity – hostility (a strong feeling of disliking).
supplication – request addressed to God.
scholar – someone who studies a particular subject and knows a lot
about it, especially the subject that is not scientific.
mass – a ceremony in the Christian Church, especially the Roman
Catholic church, in which Jesus Christ’s last meal with his disciples
is remembered.
Vocabulary
objective – something that you plan to achieve, especially in

business or work (+of): main/primary/principal objective;
accomplish/achieve/attain/fulfill/meet/reach objective.
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malicious – unkind and showing a strong feeling of wanting to hurt
someone: malicious gossip/rumors; maliciously (adj); malice (n):
without any malice – mean well.
affiliation – connection with an organization, especially a political
or religious one; affiliate (v): be affiliated with sth – to be
officially connected with a larger organization or a group; affiliated
company/corporation/trade union; affiliate (n).
retaliate – to do sth harmful or unpleasant to someone because they
have sth harmful or unpleasant to you; retaliate by doing sth;
retaliate against sb for sth; retaliation (n) (+against): in
retaliation for; retaliatory (adj).
condemn – to say publicly that you think someone is bad or wrong:
condemn sb/sth as sth; condemn sb for (doing)sth;
strongly/roundly condemn; condemnation (n); condemnatory
(adj) – expressing strong criticism; condemned (adj) – a
condemned prisoner is waiting to be killed for the crime:
condemned cell – in the US, a room for a prisoner who is waiting
to be killed.
1. How would the writer answer these questions?
- What is the reason for misrepresentation of Islam by Western mass

media?
- What is the reaction of a common person on this avalanche of
information about malicious nature of Islam?
2. What is your position to the writer’s statement?
Animosity for other religions is the creation of yellow press.
3. Has your vision of the problem changed after reading this

article? Have you become more open-minded (ready and willing
to consider new ideas)? Have you become more tolerant of other
groups?
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- The writer disapproves of the existence of dual standards in

reporting about the acts of terror. What is the situation like in our
country? What was the attitude of global community to Russia’s
commitment to combat terrorism and retain territorial integrity?
Why has the attitude changed?
- The writer criticizes journalists for the lack of professionalism in
treating important problems. What is your concept of journalist
professionalism? (Take into consideration the meaning of the word
“profession” as a job, which requires certain skills to earn one’s
living.)
■ 2.5 E. Human Rights: Righting Wrongs24

NEW YORK
Human-rights campaigners are starting to lobby for

economic and social rights, such as the right to health and the
right to food. Will they make a success of it?
IN SHAW'S "Pygmalion", Colonel Pickering asks Alfred

Doolittle whether he has no morals. "Can't afford them, governor,"
the philanderer replies; "Neither could you if you was as poor as
me." Morals are costly to maintain. So are rights, especially the kind
of "universal human rights" that become enshrined in United
Nations' declarations.
During the cold war, enthusiasm for the rights split along the
obvious divide: capitalists were keen on civil and political rights,
communists on social and economic rights. When Western lobbyists
accused the Soviet Union of violating its citizens’ rights, the Soviet
government replied that the economic and social rights of its people
were more important.
In terms of publicity and promotion, political rights have had
the benefit of human-rights advocates. They have publicized the
Based on 'Special report: Human rights. Righting Wrongs. The Economist,
24
August 18th 2001.
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plight of prisoners of conscience and victims of torture. As a result,
regimes that torture, unjustly imprison or disenfranchise their
citizens have sometimes been pushed or shamed into changing their
behaviour.
At the moment Amnesty International campaigners battle in
support of civil and political rights. They define their battleground
with care, supporting only the rights of individuals. If a journalist is
thrown into prison, Amnesty will launch a campaign on his or her
behalf. If a government bans a newspaper, however, Amnesty will
remain mute, because the action harms no single individual.
Until now, economic benefits such as housing, food, health
care and fair wages have been less widely promoted. Now, though
Western human-rights groups, which have traditionally focused
only on civil and political violations, are looking again at economic
rights, and hope eventually to persuade governments to place the
right to a house or a meal on an equal footing with the right to vote.
Over the past four years, Amnesty's (International) main
policy committee, the Standing Committee on the Mandate, has
been developing a set of resolutions that would explicitly
incorporate economic and social rights into Amnesty's mandate. If
adopted, the resolutions will alter the character of the organization
profoundly and permanently.
However much remains to be settled. For instance, Peter Pack,
the standing committee's chairman, says the organization could well
end up with a position on economic and social rights that resembles
its stance on civil and political rights: only certain abuses, under
certain circumstances, would fall within Amnesty's remit.
The main question is whether such a change would
reinvigorate Amnesty's mission or splinter it. Amnesty's letters,
petitions and appeals have successfully chastised torturers and des-
pots. Would their tactics be equally effective in the greyer worlds of
health, housing, and labour policy?
Up to now Western human-rights campaigners have left
economic and social concerns to humanitarians and philanthropists.
When they have taken an interest in economic and social conditions,
it has been merely to strengthen the case for political crusading. For
example they assert that "the best way to prevent famine today is to
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secure the right to free expression - so that misguided government
policies can be brought to public attention and corrected before food
shortages become acute."
Now, campaigners increasingly question that view. Amnesty
may be the most prominent human-rights group debating a shift of
focus, but it is by no means alone. Since 1993, the charter of the
Centre for Economic and Social Rights in Brooklyn, New York, has
demanded that it "challenge economic injustice as a violation of
international human rights law". In its strategic plan for the next
three years, Oxfam, Britain's leading overseas-development charity,
lays out its belief in "rights to a sustainable livelihood, and the
rights and capacities to participate in societies and make positive
changes to people's lives".
United Nations' bodies are also keen to extend the concept.
Since 1998, the World Health Organization has been asking the
international community to recognize health as a human right. And
the UN Human Rights Commission recently stated that international
trade law ought to be harmonized with international human-rights
law.
Why, though, are human-rights bodies so keen to broaden their
remit in this way? Michael Ignatieff25 insists "All the gains in civil
and political rights that have been made in Botswana, for example,
will be wiped out by the catastrophic losses in economic and social
rights. At this level of incidence of AIDS, the virus destroys the
infrastructure of a society. It cuts into the defences that make civil
and political rights possible."
Mr. Ignatieff has a point. Botswana, like neighbouring South
Africa where AIDS is also rife, is a democracy with a reasonably free
press and healthy civil institutions. The fact that Botswana suffers
from the world's highest incidence of AIDS, with South Africa close
behind, proves that democracy and press freedom are not pro-
phylactics. Human-rights campaigners may feel that these countries
are not doing enough to staunch the spread of the disease, but they
cannot blame the failure on political abuses. Nor can they tell other,
25
Michael Ignatieff is the director of the Carr Centre of Human Rights, Policy
at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
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less enlightened regimes that respecting civil and political rights
will help to halt the spread of AIDS.
However, the strategy is a perilous one. Even if economic and
social rights appear to have the same status on paper as civil and
political rights, their philosophical grounding is often questioned.
Though governments may intentionally torture their citizens; they
do not usually intentionally, inflict on them poverty and ill health.
The moral imperative to stop poverty or disease is therefore not as
convincing as the moral imperative to stop torture.
There is a further problem. In the eyes of governments today,
certain human rights in the civil and political realm have attained
the status of moral absolutes. Abusers of these rights face sanctions
and censure, even if their actions are mandated by the democratic
processes of a sovereign state. However, giving a similar status to
economic and social rights would produce a curious outcome. Some
nations would be subject to condemnation simply because of their
poverty, while others would be arraigned26 for the policy outcomes
of decisions taken democratically. It would be morally distasteful
and counterproductive.
Critics of an expanded set of human rights point to another
difference between the old sort and the new. To guarantee civil and
political rights is relatively cheap, whereas to guarantee economic
and social rights is potentially enormously costly. The cost of
ensuring the right to vote, for example, is well-defined. Endorsing a
universal right to health care, by contrast, seems a sure start to an
expensive ride down a slippery slope.
In any case, it will be hard for human-rights campaigners to
advance economic and social rights as successfully as they have
promoted civil and political rights.
If human-rights campaigners succeed in deploying their
campaigning skills to improve health and reduce poverty, that will
be a considerable gain. However, they risk alienating Western
countries that have hitherto usually been their allies, which will
have to face the claims of their own citizens for adequate health
care, food, wages etc.
26
Arraign – (usually passive) to order someone to go to a court of law to be
formally charged with a crime.
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Veteran campaigners know all too well that two wrongs don't
make a right. They are about to find out that too many rights may
well make a wrong.
Culture
disenfranchise – to no longer allow someone to have the right to

vote.
philanthropist – someone who believes in helping people,
especially by giving money to those who need it.
realm – a particular area of knowledge, experience, interest: the
political/military realm, (+of).
censure – severe criticism of someone.
chastise – to criticize someone.
Vocabulary
plight – a sad, serious, or difficult situation: the plight of the

poor/homeless/unemployed.
remit – a particular area of work that someone is responsible for:
within / outside the remit of.
(re)invigorate – to give someone more energy, refresh; invigorated
(adj)– full of energy; invigorating (adj) – making you feel that you
have more energy: an invigorating walk/ swim/shower.
rife – (adj) (never before noun) if something bad or unpleasant is
rife there is plenty of it; rife with.
perilous – very dangerous; perilously (adv): perilously close to
(doing) sth; peril (n) – danger: in peril; at your own peril; the
peril of doing sth.
deploy – to use sth; deployment (n).
- Who can afford morals according to B.Shaw?
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- What was the division of interests on the rights’ arena in the past?
- How has the battleground of Amnesty International changed
lately?
- What is the United Nations bodies’ attitude to the extension of the
concept of rights?
- Why are human-rights bodies keen to broaden their remit?
2. The author identifies several problems in the extension of

the concept of rights. What are they?
3. What is the implication of the title? How do you

understand it?
- Though the necessity of balance between human and economic

rights is a sure way to harmony in global community the article is
by no means controversial. What do you think about the change of
priorities? Do you consider it timely? Have all the political rights of
every individual been already achieved? What is the reason for this
shift of priorities?
2.6 Group Discussion
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■ What makes a good and successful marriage? Which factors
contribute to an unhappy family life?
■ Experts continue to argue about the impact of the entertainment
industry on children, especially in terms of violence and sex.
Explain your stand here?
■ What are the most pressing causes of violence among youth?
Some critics place the bulk of the responsibility for youth violence
on adults. Do you agree? Are there any other causes for violence
among youth?
■ What disappointments, resentments, and hurts do you retain
from your childhood that you are sure you will never inflict on
your own children? How can you be sure?
■ We usually expect from a journalist an unbiased version of the
events. Isn’t it just utopia as we are all prejudiced because of our
culture, education, family background?
■ We often dream about harmony in global community. What do
you think can bring harmony in the society?
■ What is your attitude to censorship? What are some situations
in which censorship acquires the status of imperative? Who has
the authority to censor? What do you think of self-censorship?
2.7 Creative Consolidation
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1. Project-Making.
- Devise a community beneficial enterprise. Be ready to present it to

the municipal committee and speak about its advantages - both
social and economic. Take into account the population profile of the
community (old age pensioners, young families, high proportion of
the unemployed etc.)
- Devise a program consolidating the society without ruining its
diversity on the a) local, b) regional, c) national level. Be ready to
present your project.
- Devise a program to check violence on the a) community, b)
regional, c) national level. Be ready to present it.
2. Write an article about:
a) the necessity of introducing community standards;

b) the impossibility of demanding community standards, which is
equal to censorship;
c) the impossibility of rejecting the past which is the way to the
abyss of self-destruction of the nation;
d) the necessity of denouncing the past to be able to create a new
society;
e) the balance between the freedom to exercise religion and
unprecedented proliferation of religious sects;
f) the controversy over the introduction of religious education at
school (pros and cons);
g) the controversy over the introduction of censorship.
3. Write a 350-word essay developing one of the theses.
1. As violence in movies increases, so do crime rates in our

cities. To combat this problem we must establish a board to censor
certain movies or we must limit admission to persons over 21 years
of age.
2. As overall life expectancy continues to rise, the
population of our country is growing increasingly older. A prudent
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investor would be well advised to sell interest in hotels and invest in
hospitals and nursing homes instead.
3. As public concern over drug abuse has increased,
authorities have become more vigilant in their efforts to prevent
illegal drugs from entering the country. Many drug traffickers have
consequently switched from marijuana which is bulky, or heroin,
which has a market too small to justify the risk of severe
punishment, to cocaine. Thus enforcement efforts have ironically
resulted in an observed increase in the illegal use of cocaine.
4. In most fields – including education, politics, and
business – the prevailing philosophy never stays in place very long.
This pattern of constantly shifting from one theoretical position to
another is an inevitable reflection of human nature: people soon tire
of the status quo.
5. Most people today place too much emphasis on
satisfying their immediate desires. The overall quality of life would
be greatly improved if we all focused instead on meeting our long-
term needs.
6. The most important reason for studying history is not
that knowledge of history can make us better people or a better
society but that it can provide clues to solving the societal problems
that we face today.
7. Whether people accept or reject an idea depends more on
the way it is presented to them than on the merits of the idea itself.
8. All citizens should be required to perform a special
amount of public service. Such service would benefit not only the
country as a whole but also the individual participants.
9. Companies are never justified in employing young
children, even if the child’s family would benefit from the income.
10. Robert Parker, a mystery writer, has stated: In general, I
believe that writers should be free to write what they wish; and
publisher, should be free to publish what they wish; and each
should be free to do it at any time. (Do you agree with his opinion?
Why or why not?)
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2. 1A. Man and Society

1. Are you a gregarious person, enjoying socializing, or do

Read the following short extract by Margaret Horsfield, in which

In a remote place “people are very aware of each other. The

● Comment on the paradox, the author describes.

2. Explain the meaning of the words in bold and answer the

FEMINISM: The modern feminist movement stems from the

● How would you explain the expression “male” words with a

Changes in attitudes to war

One area in which great changes occurred in the twentieth

● How had people’s view of the place of war in civilized society

2.2 Raise the Issue

➢ What do you know about human rights?

2.2 A. Words in Context

1. Tick the word closest in meaning to that of the each

disparity (n) The wide disparity between men’s and

forestall (v) When the environmentalists were unable

insidious (adj) The effects of certain prescription drugs,

insinuate (v) Instead of directly saying “Buy our

interrogate (v) In many countries political prisoners

obsequious (adj) In a job interview, use discretion. Don’t

omnipotent (adj) Small children think of their parents as

opportune (adj) Quite often we look for an opportune

permeate (v) A sense of deep loss permeated her

retribution (n) For much of human history, before

2. Write the word next to its definition. The sentences in the

…………… Obsequious ………Overly willing to serve, obey, or

3. Complete the text with the words from the box.

Everyone who treats the question of human rights should bear

4. Answer the following questions.

● What is the difference between human and constitutional rights?

2. 2 B. Listening and Watching

 Watch multimedia programs 1151, 1521, 1597, 1631 and be

2.2 C. Creative Consolidation

1. Write a synthetic review of the information from the text and

2. Write a 350-word essay developing one of the following theses:

3. Write an article about the reasons for tyrants’ and dictators’

2.2 D. Roots of Terrorism

➢ Social stability as well as the survival of humanity is now

Breeding Grounds of Terrorism5

The problem of terrorism which has recently come to the

2. Find these expressions in the text and explain their

come to the forefront, breakneck speed, keep pace with,

3. Match the following words with their definitions.

4. Match the pairs of antonyms.

1. eliminate- create a. influx

5. Answer the questions.

- Why isn’t the theory ready to define the nature of terrorism?

6. Do you agree with the writer’s stance on the following

2.2 E. Group Discussion. Brainstorm Ideas.

● The article touches upon social apartheid and ethnical labor

2.2 F. Vocabulary in Focus

1. Read the following sentence from the text paying special

In a world of inequality there will always be the

Match the words, characterizing people’s beliefs, with their

adherent (of) someone with strong unreasonable beliefs, thinking

2. Complete the sentences with the words from the previous

1. It had been said that …… converts …….to a religion can often be

3. Read the following sentence and explain the meaning of