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...successfully, a critical mass of free men and women need to truly grasp its implications and make informed policy choices. In South Africa, it is the lack of political leadership, amid a solid institutional framework, that inhibits the country's decisive response to the hiv/aids pandemic, structural unemployment and abject poverty. What this country, and indeed the continent, needs is probably a well-balanced combination of the two. Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi M.P. President of the Inkatha Freedom Party Ulundi, South Africa Gender Sensitivity for All In the interview with newly elected Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf [Nov. 28], Time asked...
...social models as currently constructed are unsustainable, as is the isolation and marginalization of burgeoning foreign populations. As a major center of economic and political power, we should hope that Europe finds a way to avoid the catastrophe that is so clearly looming ahead. Europe’s abject failure to solve or even publicly debate any of the serious challenges awaiting it, however, leaves little room for optimism. Mark A. Adomanis ’07, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Eliot House...
...Burton’s signature style and imagination is the golden ticket. Just as in “Big Fish,” we are treated to an unreal world where we want to believe. The stark grays of reality—and the gloom of abject poverty—are complemented by the rainbow colors of candy in the Wonka factory and the brilliant blues in the spick-and-span toothpaste plant where Charlie’s father worked...
...other anti-Communist sins. The persecution is commonly thought to have succeeded in breaking him, but as the recordings prove, the composer resisted with the help of Russian pianist Maria Yudina and Matsov's father. "This collection gives the lie to the myth of Shostakovich being cowed into abject submission by Stalin," says Matsov. "Shostakovich, my father and Yudina waged their own campaign of cultural resistance - and won." Beyond Shostakovich's daring work, this trio also organized public performances of over 400 mostly religious pieces, including works by Bach, Wagner, Haydn and Mahler that were banned in the U.S.S.R...
Miguel Contreras is a good example of a union boss. He was caring, intelligent and pragmatic. He knew the struggles of working people because he grew up in some of the most abject poverty this country allows. He worked his way up through the ranks through force of personality and a willingness to do the hard, unrewarding work of social justice. Under his leadership, the L.A. County Federation of Labor grew from 125,000 to 800,000, largely because the group courted immigrant workers, a demographic that often works in the worst conditions and has the least political power...