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...violence and "substantive autonomy" for the three southernmost provinces. The problem is that, for the rest of this intensely nationalistic country, autonomy is regarded as a back door for separatism, a word whose closest Thai equivalent translates emotively as "tearing apart the land." Such sensitivities make public discussion of bold solutions impossible, laments McCargo. As his book suggests, putting the land back together isn't impossible. Tragically, it isn't imminent either...
...rich countries, democracy makes life more peaceful and prosperous; in poor ones, it makes life more dangerous. So argues Oxford economist Paul Collier in his bold new book Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places, which extends the discussion he began in his celebrated 2007 study of the world's poorest nations, The Bottom Billion. Collier's not the first to point out that elections, unsupported by robust institutions, are simply political fetishes. But his analysis, delivered with clarity and wit, digs deep into how they increase the risk of wars, uprisings and riots for the world's poorest...
...semester of education in the midst of a revolt that has gripped several of the nation’s universities since February. Schools in France have been forced to cancel classes and scramble for order while discontent with French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s handling of a bold higher education reform program has erupted into strikes and walkouts. For some of the 12 Harvard undergraduates who, according to the Office of International Programs, are currently studying in Paris, the situation has posed difficulties. French professors have used classroom time not to lecture, but to inform students about the reasons...
...Hofstra University faculty, she recently choreographed a performance featuring eight dancers, four of whom live with disabilities. Her creation—which is coming to Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art tonight and tomorrow—is called the GIMP project, and its name perfectly exemplifies her bold and unabashed intention to honor the different ways in which the disabled move. In fact, the project’s website points out certain different meanings for the word “gimp,” including “a ribbon like, braided fabric… fighting spirit; vigor?...
...Undergraduate Council has come up with an innovative, bold proposal, and, ironically, it may fail because it is the UC that has come up with it. This week the student governing body will vote on whether to initiate a capital campaign to raise $600,000 to put toward a down payment on 45 Mt. Auburn Street—the Democracy Center building, currently owned by the Foundation for Civic Leadership. Supporters of the undertaking provide a vision that this building could become a vibrant communal social space (read: party space) for the Harvard student body...