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However, he admitted that citizen efforts to remove the manager are doomed to failure, calling it a “Don Quixote attempt...
Rather, Appiah’s subject is the citizen (“polites”) of the cosmos: that is, the citizen who conceives of him or herself not as belonging to the “polis,” a city to which he or she would owe loyalty, but to the universe or the world in a broader sense. The conversation is one above and across cultures—a conversation in which the very idea of essentially distinct cultures cannot be heard over, say, the Iranian shopkeepers of Appiah’s native town of Kumasi...
...recently as 1990, up to 175 people were languishing in prison for spreading their Christianity. Freedom was always more in the eye of the foreign beholder than in the heart of the beheld. As for Bhutan's purity, it was to some extent imposed from above. No citizen was allowed to hold foreign currency, no school trips could be taken out of the country, and Bhutanese women who married foreigners lost rights. Behind the sound of clashing cultures on Freak Street in Kathmandu, beyond the carless emptiness of Bhutan's Paro Valley, both countries have long been dealing with...
Having lost its guaranteed access to every citizen's records, deCODE had to change tactics and approach people one by one. In return, the company promised that Icelanders will get any drug Hoffmann--La Roche develops out of the project for free until the patents run out. According to Stefansson, most have agreed to cooperate. "Ten percent of people have questions about the project," says Asmundur Johannsson, a Reykjavk resident. "Ninety percent approve of deCODE, and I am one of them...
...called citizen journalists bagged another trophy last week when THE SCIENTIFIC ACTIVIST discovered that NASA public-affairs aide George Deutsch--accused of trying to muzzle agency scientists on the issue of global warming--had never graduated from Texas A&M University, a detail the 24-year-old presidential appointee later explained away by saying his rsum had been written in anticipation of a degree. After he resigned, THIS BLOG TITLE FOR SALE praised the sleuthing as "proof that blog journalism is real." Meanwhile, THE VELVET BLOG pondered updating his own rsum "in anticipation of graduating from Harvard...