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...Certainly, students are entitled to express their opinions on any issue. But activists assume a higher purpose: They hope not only to articulate, but also to enact their vision of the world. So, when students use the weapons of civil disobedience as everyday tools, they blunt their edge. People don’t stop to listen to the kid with the bullhorn because they see him all the time. If students focused their energies on campaigns that directly involved them, they might have greater effect...
...quantitatively insists that Mao was 70% right and only 30% wrong - Hu Jiwei's views on Deng will no doubt be a hard one to accept. Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong-based writer who was imprisoned by Chinese authorities for almost three years for espionage, put this in rather blunt terms at the book event. "[China does] not dare to face its history," he says...
...four years ago. Chávez, still Venezuela's most popular political figure, just won a referendum that will let him run for re-election as long as he wants. His small but radical leftist bloc of Latin American nations (including Bolivia and Nicaragua) has helped blunt U.S. hegemony and ushered non-hemispheric allies like Russia, China and Iran into America's backyard. His backers insist that the Wall Street implosion has vindicated Chávez's rejection of free-market capitalism as the solution for Latin America. And his critics, who call him a neo-Fidel Castro, still have...
...against abortion. The confusion also raised questions about whether the Lisbon Treaty was too complicated and technical to be put to a referendum. But Ganley, who will run himself in Ireland's northwest constituency, rejects such claims. "Democracy is not supposed to be perfect," he says. "It's a blunt instrument. It's not expected to be efficient...
...Their lighter instrumentation, the latter featuring just Young and his acoustic, work to highlight the complex vocal harmonies that were present throughout the album. Young’s uniquely fragile and charming voice shines through, honorably affected by time. Instances like this, in which Young exchanges nagging rhetoric for blunt vulnerability are rare, but rewarding. And though he has his heartfelt moments, it may not be enough to compensate for sitting through an album that seems to have largely ignored its audience’s desires—“Fork in the Road” notoriously postponed...