Thursday, October 17, 2002

dirty words/phrases:

1. The spectre of something is haunting somewhere. Only cool when Marx did it.
2. Textured.
3. A sociological ontology of the international system.
4. Norms have behavioural effects. (How exactly do norms affect behaviour?)
4a. Norms are constitutive of identity.
4b. Identity.


Not that this is related in any way. From the New Straits Times online, 9/19/2002. Dr Mahathir on the 2002/3 budget allocations.
"Allocation for women must be increased as their role in our country is very significant now. Even in the Finance Ministry, the majority of them are women, so we want to give a bigger allocation for them in our aim to develop a happy and progressive family institution," he said.