Word: act
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...problems, even when they are not as directly affected as their fellow citizens. A crime is not merely the making of one criminal nor the tragedy of its victims. It is rather the convergence of societal forces for which all citizens are responsible. The Mexican elite should act accordingly and not behave so frivolously in the face of calamity. Sabrina G. Lee ’12, a Crimson editorial writer, lives in Greenough Hall...
...while people were tensing up about the next act, Antoine was backstage cracking jokes, making people smile and laugh, Koh said...
Mumbaikars, though, did not wallow in their woe. In the past, bouts of bloody Hindu-Muslim violence followed acts of terrorism. But a sense of unity, not vindictiveness, permeated the city this time. Mumbai's influential Hindu right-wing went missing, knowing its brand of extremism wasn't welcome. Soon after the last shots were fired, the city's leading Muslim clerics showed their contempt for the act, declaring that the bodies of the terrorists would not be allowed a proper burial within Mumbai...
...Later the practice became an ambush tactic to draw law and fire authorities to the scene - where they'd then be attacked by gangs. Now the act works as a manner of daily protest against alienation, discrimination and the indifference of more affluent French society...
...backlash against electoral politics by the very people who were recently its proponents may be the most troubling sign of Asian democracy under siege. Civil society acts as the moral force of Asia. Activists are crucial both for their capacity to inspire the populace to act more justly and to speak out when leaders slide toward authoritarianism. Unlike the leadership roster in Asia, the list of brave citizens who once spoke out for the disenfranchised is long, from Jaime Cardinal Sin in the Philippines to the writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer in Indonesia. In Asia today, perhaps because the abuses wrought...