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Should CAT follow the GMAT pattern? Where marks should only be treated as just a cut off score and more weightage should be given to PI and WAT?
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RC Practice - 27th June
The refusal of some countries to extradite persons accused or convicted of terrorist act has focused attention on the problems caused by the political offense exception to extradition. Extradition is the process by which one country returns an accused or convicted person found within its borders to another country for trial or punishment. Under the political offense exception, the requested state may, if it considers the crime to be a “political offense,” deny extradition to the requesting state.
Protection of political offenses is a recent addition to the ancient practice of extradition. It is the result of two fundamental changes that occurred as European monarchies were replaced by representative governments. First, these governments began to reject what had been a primary intent of extradition, to expedite the return of political offenders, and instead sought to protect dissidents fleeing despotic regimes. Second, countries began to contend that they had no legal or moral duty to extradite offenders without specific agreements creating such obligations. As extradition laws subsequently developed through international treaties, the political offense exception gradually became an accepted principle among Western nations.
There is no international consensus, however, as to what constitutes a political offense. For analytical purposes illegal political conduct has traditionally been divided into two categories. “Pure” political offenses are acts perpetrated directly against the government, such as treason and espionage. These crimes are generally recognized as nonextraditable, even if not expressly excluded from extradition by the applicable treaty. In contrast, common crimes, such as murder, assault, and robbery, are generally extraditable. However, there are some common crimes that are so inseparable from a political act that the entire offense is regarded as political. These crimes, which are called “relative” political offenses, are generally nonextraditable. Despite the widespread acceptance of these analytic constructs, the distinctions are more academic than meaningful. When it comes to real cases, there is no agreement about what transforms a common crime into a political offense and about whether terrorist acts fall within the protection of the exception. Most terrorists claim that their acts do fall under this protection.
Nations of the world must now balance the competing needs of political freedom and international public order. It is time to reexamine the political offense exception, as international terrorism eradicates the critical distinctions between political offenses and nonpolitical crimes. The only rational and attainable objective of the exception is to protect the requested person against unfair treatment by the requesting country. The international community needs to find an alternative to the political offense exception that would protect the rights of requested persons and yet not offer terrorists immunity from criminal liability.
1. In the passage, the author primarily seeks to
(A) define a set of terms and clarify the distinction involved
(B) outline a new approach in dealing with political offenders
(C) describe a current problem and plead for a remedial action
(D) expose an illegal practice of several nations
2. Which of the following best describes the author’s view of “political offense exception?”
(A) It is a dubious distinction open to discretionary interpretation
(B) It is the root cause behind spreading tentacles of terrorism
(C) It is an ambiguous territory used by nations to serve their propaganda
(D) It is an internationally recognized practice for fair treatment of criminals
3. Given the discussion in the passage, which one of the following distinctions does the author consider particularly problematic?
(A) between common crimes and “relative” political offense
(B) between “pure” political offenses and common crimes
(C) between “pure” political offenses and “relative” political offenses
(D) between terrorist acts and acts of espionage
4. According to the author, the primary purpose of the political offense exception should be to
(A) ensure that terrorists are tried for their acts
(B) provide political criminals immunity against persecution
(C) offer diplomatic immunity to political criminals
(D) limit extradition to those accused of “relative” political offenses
5. The author would most likely agree that the political offense exception
(A) has been a modestly useful weapon again terrorism
(B) has never met the objective for which it was originally established
(C) has been of more academic than practical value to political dissidents
(D) has, in some cases, been stretched beyond intended use
6. Which one of the following, if true, would give the author most cause to reconsider her recommendation regarding the political offence exception ?
(A) More nations started extraditing persons accused or convicted of treason, espionage, and other similar crimes.
(B) The nations of the world sharply decreased their use of the political offense exception protect persons accused of each of the various types of “pure” political offenses.
(C) The nations of the world sharply decreased their use of the political offense exception to protect persons accused of each of the various types of “relative” political offenses.
(D) The nations of the world started to disagree over the analytical distinction between “pure” political offenses and “relative” political offenses.
Passage analysis of today's RC :- https://youtu.be/oWiujaqCmPk
Answers of today's RC :- https://youtu.be/W28oFsp4MjA
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RC Practice - 28th June
Various tales in Herodotus’s The Histories display a circular means of the realization of fate. In one story involving the birth of Cyrus and his rise to power in Asia, Herodotus tells us that the Median king Astyages was having disturbing dreams about his daughter Mandane. We are told that his first dream, in which Mandane’s urine flooded all of Asia, was interpreted ominously by the Magi. As a consequence, when the time came to marry Mandane off, Astyages made what turned out to be a fatal mistake. While there were plenty of wealthy and powerful Medes eligible for marriage, “his fear of the dream made him refuse to marry her to any of them; instead, he gave her to a Persian called Cambyses, whom he found to be of noble lineage and peaceful behavior, although he regarded him as the social inferior by far of a Mede of the middle rank.” Essentially, Astyages altered what would be a normal treatment of the marriage in order to marry his daughter to someone less threatening. This attempt to avoid the prophesy of the first dream backfired however, and when Mandane became pregnant, Astyages had another foreboding dream. This second dream was interpreted to mean that Mandane’s son would rule in Astyages’s place. Herodotus tells us that “[the prophecy of the second dream] was what Astyages was guarding against” when he again took action, telling his advisor Harpagus to kill the baby. This plan backfired as well since Harpagus refused to kill the baby, leading to a complicated chain of events whereby the child—later to be named Cyrus—survived and returned to conquer his grandfather’s kingdom. In this story, Astyages’s downfall is depicted as resulting directly from two major mistakes—marrying Mandane to Cambyses and telling Harpagus to kill their offspring. These mistakes in turn are shown to be motivated by fear of the prophesies of his downfall. Had not some divine force planted the dreams in his head, he would not have taken the steps necessary to fulfill those prophesies. Through this circular path, destiny is unavoidably realized.
1. Which of the following best describes the philosophical argument underlying the passage?
(A) There is no free will; humans all have a predetermined and unavoidable fate. (B) Divine revelations are His way of communicating with us.
(C) Free will serves destiny.
(D) Human’s circumstances are his own making.
2. Which of the following cannot be inferred from the passage?
(A) As a result of his first dream, Astyages believed the threat his daughter posed to him could be through her husband.
(B) Astyages believed that it was always best to observe the recommendations of the Magi.
(C) Astyages believed that a Persian noble was less of a threat to his position than a Median noble.
(D) Had Astyages not acted upon his dreams, he might have averted the fate that befell him.
3. Which of the following, if true, would most strongly undermine the claim that Astyages’s downfall proceeded from two major mistakes?
(A) Mandane’s husband would have deposed Astyages if he had known why his son was killed.
(B) Astyages’s first dream was in fact a warning against allowing his daughter to marry.
(C) Harpagus would not have killed the baby regardless of whether he knew the prophesy.
(D) Mandane’s son would have conquered his grandfather’s kingdom regardless of who his father was
Answers of today's RC : - https://youtu.be/Gcu3zjnZQ7o
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