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COLUMN: Do Orwell's predictions ring true?
From: University Wire
Date: 20021004
Author:Derek Shaw
00-00-0000
(Daily Trojan) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- George Orwell's "1984" depicts
a world that has been reduced to absolute governmental control over
all areas of life, banishing the freedom to love, read and even think
freely. The threat of constant warfare falsely propagated by the "
Party," the single political power in the totalitarian state of Oceania,
allows the government to maintain and expand its reign over the lives
of its people.
Sound somewhat familiar? Well it should ...
As the likelihood of war in the Middle East continues to escalate, American ...
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