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...cartoon in the International Herald Tribune said it all. It depicted Chinese leaders saying: "From now on, French fries are 'communist fries!' " as an angry crowd demonstrated in front of a French megastore in China. From tilting against the U.S. in 2003 to challenging China now, is France becoming the world's default Don Quixote? Five years ago Paris flamboyantly opposed the war of the American "hyperpower" in Iraq; now it opposes human-rights violations committed in Tibet by tomorrow's superpower, China. The parallel undeniably flatters the French ego, since it suggests the supremacy of ethics over realpolitik...
...wounded by the shock of 9/11, felt betrayed by their old and passionately difficult ally. Today, in contrast, France's positions toward China draw offense through their very lack of clarity. The murkiness reflects France's contradictions and renders France - the first Western country to open a dialogue with communist China in the early '60s - particularly vulnerable to China's pressures. Nicolas Sarkozy, France's new President, seems caught between his desire to show that he is not the prisoner of industrial lobbies and his deep concern for the future of numerous French contracts with China. He runs the risk...
...Seneca’s annual Red Party was devoid of communist ideology and Karl Marx was not invited...but that didn’t stop hundreds of students from attending. The event, held last Thursday night at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge, was a success. The Red Party, a Seneca tradition started nine years ago, was previously held in the Roxy, a Boston club, before a 2007 Boston law restricted entry into nightclubs to prevent underage drinking. According to Emma Moretzsohn ’09, the president of The Seneca, the group chose to keep the event open to everyone...
...prospect of bringing these former Soviet states into the organization as dangerous because of the likelihood that their admission would anger Russia. Instances like these illustrate the political tensions that NATO’s exclusion of Russia causes. NATO was conceived in 1949 as a bulwark against the Communist bloc, which formed the Warsaw Pact in response. Even though the Warsaw Pact dissolved 20 years ago and many of its former constituents have joined Western organizations like the European Union (EU), NATO still exists. As a Western military alliance it continues to play a significant role in European politics.NATO...
...global market get a free pass (except of course from the aging vigilantes in the Class of 1967).Our shepherds, the professors, cannot be let off the hook. After all, their dabbling with the dialectic seems to have dropped off entirely in recent decades. We laugh, but the communist clique at the Faculty Club was once a menace all its own; in 1949 Professor John Edsail ’23 fumed: “Communists are shifty, and treacherous colleagues, and I do not wish to collaborate with them in any program of political or social action...