Word: alongism
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...These days, Yang has become part of Australia's artistic mainstream himself, witnessing along the way an evolution in the country's attitude toward its minorities, particularly gays and Asians. He also notices more tolerance and diversity. "It's a slow process," he says. "There's always some resistance to change, but if the new attitudes hang around for long enough, then people start to accept them...
...over a week, Harvard hopes to be offensively sound as well.“We haven’t practiced for a week and a half at least, so we need to get back to improve our technical defending, but the rest of it is starting to come along,” Leone said. “BC and BU are fantastic teams, so we have our hands full, but we’ll give it a go.”—Staff writer Alex Sopko can be reached at sopko@fas.harvard.edu...
...pages of his books and along the campaign trail, the president wasn’t shy about saying America is losing something that used to be omnipresent: A sense of mutual responsibility tied to sense of respect for those with a different view of what that mutual responsibility entails...
...regulatory policies, on issues ranging from financial services to environmental policy. “I feel honored, grateful, and humbled to be able to serve the country,” Sunstein wrote in an e-mailed statement to The Crimson on Saturday. The 57-40 Senate vote fell predictably along partisan lines, with all but five Democrats who were present for the vote and only four Republicans voting in favor of his nomination. Conservatives aired concerns about Sunstein’s public statements as an academic, particularly his comments in favor of granting some legal rights to animals...
Hunger strikers in Camp Ashraf - along with those starving themselves in sympathy in Washington D.C., London, Berlin, and Ottawa - are demanding that the U.S. take back protective control of the camp. In the long term, they'd like permanent U.N. protection for the dissidents. Several lawmakers and lawyer groups in Britain are voicing their support. On Sept. 9, London-based law firm Finers Stephens Innocent released a legal opinion calling on Iraq to respect the Geneva Convention in protecting the camp dwellers - and insisting the U.S. ensure their safety. (Full disclosure: Finers Stephens Innocent has represented TIME in the past...