Quotation of the Day
"America was until this last generation a white country designed for ourselves and our posterity. It is our creation and it belongs to us."
RICHARD SPENCER, an ideologue of the alt-right movement, speaking to 200 mostly young men in Washington.
November 21, 2016
(1)Trump Turns Staid(着実な) Process Into Spectacle as Aspirants(大望を抱く者) Parade to His Door
President-elect Donald J. Trump hinted strongly that he was considering picking James N. Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general, to be defense secretary.
(2) Indian Business Partners Hope to Exploit Their Ties to Donald Trump
Trump Towers Pune in Pune(プネー県のプネー!), India. A meeting last week with Indian developers highlights the potential for conflict stemming from his businesses and his role as president.
(3) Alt-Right Exults(大喜びをする) in Donald Trump’s Election With a Salute: ‘Heil Victory’
Protesters marched in Washington on Saturday, outside a conference of alt-right writers, activists and supporters. The alt-right, an extremist fringe(を房で飾る) popular with white supremacists, has celebrated the election of Donald J. Trump, and now hopes to have the ear of his White House.
(4)Killers on a Shoestring: Inside the Gangs of El Salvador
The scene after gang members in Olocuilta, El Salvador, killed six people on a bus in 2014 because the owner refused to pay extortion(強要、強奪). The gangs that make El Salvador the murder capital of the world(ギャングたちはエルサルバドルを世界の殺人の首都にする!) are not sophisticated global cartels but mafias of the poor.
(5)Dallas Stares Down(じっとみる) a Texas-Size Threat of Bankruptcy
Michael S. Rawlings, the mayor of Dallas, said this month that his city appeared to be “walking into the fan blades(刃)” of municipal bankruptcy. Decades of faulty(過失のある) assumptions by pension officials have left the city struggling with more pension debt, relative to its resources, than any major American city except Chicago.
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60-Second Civics: Episode 2711, Civil Service Reform
The civil service system has been reformed several times.
The civil service system was intended to create a class of administrative employees who were
a. loyal to the president.
b. forbidden from expressing political opinions.
c. loyal to the majority party in Congress.
d. insulated(遮断する) from politics.
Good job! Choice d is correct.