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...prison sentence of up to 20 years. Speaking to people inside Burma by telephone, I felt the sense of frustration that the convention has inspired in them. A well-known political commentator in Rangoon told me: "I am now quite skeptical of the whole thing, but if I begin to voice my critical views, I'm going to jail...
...people that the real problem is the evil of war. When we follow in lockstep behind an Administration that has rained down high-tech death on thousands of innocent Iraqis while our own country faces no imminent threat, how can we think the U.S. had any moral authority to begin with? If ever we are to claim some semblance of respect, we must become champions of nonviolent conflict-resolution policies, something about which the Bush Administration seems to have not the slightest clue. Frank Chase Nishinomiya, Japan...
...well underway by 1951, the schools wanted to ensure that America’s best and brightest were educated as well and as efficiently as possible to help fight communism—and students, knowing that they would have to serve in the military after graduation, wanted to begin their careers as soon as possible...
Throughout the whole process, we may take solace in the expectation that, at some point in the not-so-distant future, people will begin to listen when we speak—and when that moment arrives, we’ll be well prepared to seize...
...summing up what we?ve learned and what lessons we might take home, I?d like to begin with what we all seem to agree on. That?s the easy part. Next, I?d like to highlight the areas of disagreement and tension, and finally, I will offer a summary of what struck me as the best, actionable ideas we?ve heard during these three, information-packed days...