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...noisemakers. It was inspired casting: Scrooge hovering over the oppressed masses, with students as Robin Hoods—take from the rich, give to the poor. The sheer spectacle of the rally was enough to efface its animating principle, merely reducing the need for a living wage to a clash between Big, Bad, Corporate Harvard and its revolutionary peasantry...
Movements for social change that effect true and lasting reform are as much about the communities that make them necessary as they are about the particular groups that impede their progress. They may begin as a clash between a David and a monstrous, all-powerful Goliath, but they must end with a collective renewal. Finger-pointing gets old after awhile, particularly when those doing the pointing may easily, 50 years later, become those who are pointed...
...this is to be a clash of civilizations, Islam vs. the West, there might still be time for a period of serious, difficult introspection - a cultural examination of conscience on both sides...
...Jewish, and both had their lives knocked off center by World War II. (Wittgenstein's life teems with odd coincidences: he went to high school with Hitler.) Despite their similarities, the two came from opposite ends of the philosophical universe, and the authors use the encounter to dramatize a clash of opposing ideas about the nature and purpose of philosophy itself. They make the meeting of Popper and Wittgenstein seem as fateful as that between iceberg and Titanic...
...abbot and Yan Ming embody the complex struggle under way for control of the legacy of a Chinese cultural landmark almost as celebrated as the Forbidden City or the Great Wall. It's a clash that pits monk against monk, disciple against master and, at least in one case, cop against banner. And the stakes are high. Shaolin monks' heroism on battlefields, both real and imagined, has been legendary for generations. But like so many institutions of China's imperial past, the temple was violently severed from its historical roots by the political upheavals of the 20th century...