Paying for old sins

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Gert-Rudolf Flick's endowment of a chair in European thought at Oxford University, England, is problematical in that he is the grandson of Nazi war criminal Friedrich Flick whose fortune was founded on the use of slave labour. It would be unjust to hold Gert-Rudolf Flick responsible for the sins of his grandfather. However his gift of more than 300,000 pounds sterling to Oxford University should be considered against the Flick heirs' unwillingness to come to terms with the past and heed calls to pay proper compensation to the surviving slave labourers of Flick's mines and factories.

Donations, Ethical aspects, Endowments, University of Oxford. Balliol College, Flick, Gert-Rudolf

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Rural China's other long march

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The changes brought about by theCultural Revolution in China have changed the lives of rural women. Chinese women now work in both farms and factories, earning wages as farmers, shoemakers, barbers and rural doctors. They play a vital role in agricultural production although they are not given the same salaries and opportunities thatmen have. In terms of physical and economic efforts, the cost of progress has been higher for rural women, but inadvertedly, their achievements over the past40 years have been remarkable.

China, Women, Economic policy, Employment, Rural women

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The puritan influence

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The house owned by Tim and Karen Mathis is the earliest in Georgetown, built in 1661 dating back to England's puritan revolution. One of the oldest features of the house is its great hall that hosts winter parties around a massive fireplace with original hand-hewn gunstock corners, a massive oak summer beam with lamb's-tongue ends and the hall, which originally was the kitchen in the 1660s, held both of the house's beehive ovens used for baking.

Massachusetts, Evaluation, History, Interior design, Architecture, Domestic, Home design, Puritans

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