The civil war of Corcyra symbolizes the once unified Greece torn apart by the war between the two factions. ... The initial decision was to kill all adult men and enslave the rest; Diodotus warned, however, "the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usually goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind. " (Thucydides 3.42) Heeding his council, the Athenians withdrew their original order and as replacement: the execution of the leaders of the coup. ... After falling out of grace with the Spartans, Alcibiades would once again defect t...

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This education also empowers the people and stabilizes the democracy making it less likely to collapse or fall prey to the power of a dictatorship as the result of a single group gaining too much power. ... The freedom of choice is a vastly inclusive term that can include, amongst other things, the rights to vote, to enter one's concerns and interests into democratic forum for the society to vote upon, the right of being an integral part of the greater whole yet a distinct individual. ... As it has many times in the past and still does today, such tension in opposing groups can tear a ...

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Debates in Parliament should be concluded after the summer recess and the citi-zens of Romania called to vote on a new draft constitution at some time in fall. ... They cannot follow the optimism of the Nastase government, which expects that Romania, as the last of the candidate countries to the EU, be granted the status of a functional market economy" in the upcoming country progress report of the European Commission which is due in fall. ...

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