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A FASCINATING DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE LIBERAL-COMMUNITARIAN DEBATE IS HOW TO DEAL WITH CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN INCREASINGLY HETEROGENEOUS DEMOCRACIES. APPROACHES TO DIVERSITY IN THE FEDERAL RELATIONSHIP OF CANADA TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INSUFFICIENTLY ADDRESS HOW COMBINATIONS OF CULTURES HAVE BEEN UNDERWAY IN THE AMERICAS FOR THE PAST 500 YEARS. INSTEAD, THE AUTHOR CONTENDS THAT MESTIZAJE, THE COMBINATION OF CULTURES WHICH HAS ENSUED IN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES SOUTHWEST, ARTICULATES A "UNITY IN DIVERSITY" IN WHICH CULTURES TRANSFORM EACH OTHER WITHOUT CULMINATING IN ASSIMILATION. IN VIEW OF HOW "THE BORDER" BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO EXEMPLIFIES THE GROWING INTERSECTION OF DIVERSE CULTURES FROM THE DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING WORLD, MESTIZAJE OFFERS THAT THE INTERSECTION OF MULTIPLE CULTURES IN COLLABORATIVE - NOT HEGEMONIC - RELATIONS IS INTRINSIC TO REALIZING DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP.

THE POPULAR REVOLT AND COUP IN ROMANIA IN DECEMBER 1989 WILL FOREVER BE SYNONYMOUS IN WESTERN EYES WITH THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM EUROPE. HOWEVER, CONFLICTING VERSIONS OF EVENTS FROM THE PRINCIPAL ACTORS BEHIND CEAUSESCU'S OVERTHROW MAKE A FULL AND ACCURATE ACCOUNTING OF THE "SECURITATE'S" ROLE IN THE REVOLUTION PROBLEMATIC. THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES ROMANIAN SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATIONS, SOVIET TIES TO ROMANIAN SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE, THE BUILDING PRESSURE SINCE 1982, AND THE RESULTING DECEMBER REVOLT AND COUP. IT ALSO EXAMINES THE ORIGINS OF THE NATIONAL SALVATION FRONT (NSF) AND THE AFTERMATH IN WHICH REMNANTS OF THE "SECURITATE" JOIN THE ARMY AND THE NSF.

During the eighteenth century there was a dramatic rise in the number of groups and organisations involving women. Uses mixed-gender freemasonic lodges of adoption as an example of the new sociability among elites in France and probes the influence of those secret societies on their women members. (JLN)