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...that he was a pragmatist, not a dreamer. Indeed, he used the word "dream" only once or twice. He didn't even talk about the "American Dream." He called it the "American Promise." He didn't tell us that he was different from Martin Luther King and the civil rights generation of black leadership; he showed...
...While the evolution of China's civil society was put on hold during the Olympics, Bequelin and others say they think the longer-term outlook is bright. "It's a battle in which Chinese are trying to get government off their backs," says Bequelin. "This has nothing to do with the legitimacy of the Communist Party or debates about political systems." What's being fought for is access to information and greater personal freedom, the "fundamental tools Chinese people need to organize their lives in a market economy. I don't see how progress on those fronts can be reversed...
...Games showed that outside pressure on issues like human rights and civil society has little effect on Beijing. Now the world will be watching to see if the Chinese people take matters into their own hands and really begin building a new China...
...access to Chicago's political class. Combined with her own Southside roots - she went to high school with Santita Jackson, the Rev. Jesse Jackson's daughter - Michelle's job gave her husband entrée into the best political machine in Illinois, augmenting her ties to Jackson's powerful civil rights group, Rainbow Push...
...Games taught us that pressure from the outside world on issues like human rights and civil society has little effect on Beijing. Now it's up to the Chinese people to take matters into their own hands and really begin the building of the new China...