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Claims in which ethnic communities seek separation or autonomy (eg, secessionist efforts of the Baltic people in the former USSR) are investigated. Ethnic group claims of autonomy take on one or a combination of two basic approaches. Under the historical sovereignty approach, self-determination is invoked to restore the asserted sovereignty of a historical community. Three aspects of international law that limit this approach (the so-called doctrine of intertemporal law, the phenomenon of "recognition," & a normative trend toward stability through pragmatism over instability) are discussed. Under the human rights approach, self-determination arises within international law's expanding lexicon of human rights concern & is posited as a fundamental right that attaches collectively to groups of human beings. It is contended that this approach, despite its appeal, raises a specter of destabilization contrary to international law's normative trends & should not be equated with a right to independent statehood. Two significant impediments facing the human approach to ethnic autonomy claims include the individualistic bias toward human rights conceptions within modern international law & the ability of the doctrine of state sovereignty to impede the capacity of international law to regulate matters within the spheres of authority asserted by states recognized by the international community. S. Millett

A case example illustrates the concepts of a short term therapeutic approach and serves to differentiate it from a more traditional approach

McDonald's aim was to provide up to 6000 apprenticeships in 2009, and then up to 10,000 per year from 2010. This will make McDonald's the UK's largest government-supported apprenticeship provider. At the heart of this paper are three questions: what is an apprenticeship, is what McDonald's aims to offer equivalent to an apprenticeship, and should taxpayers be funding a notion of apprenticeship that seeks to certify training already undertaken by the employer?

Examines relations of the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Centre for Policy Studies with the Thatcher Administration; focuses on the evolution of a network of ministers, special advisers, and backbenchers.

The new structure has 3 levels. The foundations are boroughs, strengthened by functions acquired from County Hall. Above this is a curious jumble of joint boards, voluntary committees and lead borough arrangements, all delivering 'indivisible' services. On top is central government, whose powers have increased, although less than it might seem at first glance. (SJK)

Some said that the killer couldn't be a local. Others claimed that he was the wealthy son of a prominent Morgantown family. Whispers spread that Mared and Karen were sacrificed by a satanic cult or had been victims of a madman poised to strike again. Then the handwritten letters began to arrive: "You will locate the bodies of the girls covered over with brush--look carefully. The animals are now on the move." Investigators didn't find too few suspects--they had far too many. There was the campus janitor with a fur fetish, the "harmless" deliveryman who beat a woman nearly to death, the nursing home orderly with the bloody broomstick and the bouncer with the "girlish" laugh who threatened to cut off people's heads. Local authors Geoffrey C. Fuller and S. James McLaughlin tell the complete story of the murders for the first time