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...modern South Korea is a democracy, and a fractious one at that. The country is riven by divisions between rich and poor, old and young, left and right. The society has spawned myriad NGOs, civic movements and ideologically committed political parties that contest virtually every government decision as if the fate of the nation were at stake. No one in power gets a free pass these days: in April, alpha tycoon Lee Kun Hee, chairman of Samsung Group, the country's top conglomerate, was forced to resign after being indicted for tax evasion and breach of fiduciary duty. Under...
...says Ramin Sadighi, owner of the Hermes record company. To promote music in the public sphere, Sadighi and a few others formed the Hafta group last year. Another leading member of Hafta, Sohrab Mahdavi of the online culture magazine Tehranavenue.com, had in 2002 helped start an underground rock music contest...
Women often tell me it's important to get more of them elected so they can change the tenor of politics. But that goal has faced some tough choices in the Democratic contest. "He's the girl in the race," explains Marie Wilson, head of the White House Project, a nonprofit that helps women move into positions of leadership. "Clinton came out tough; she voted for the war. Obama came out as the person bringing people together and offering messages of hope and reconciliation...
...strong attack, but watching him deliver a set speech with a clenched grin to a partisan crowd may have made voters miss the McCain who made them feel like part of some feisty rebel band, not deckhands on the Death Star. "This was not a speechmaking contest," McCain adviser Alex Castellanos noted on CNN. "Thank...
...Dean of FAS Michael D. Smith invited Dershowitz to the Dec. 11 Faculty meeting to contest these reports. Dershowitz said that he “was unaware of any attempt in his 44 years at Harvard to prevent speech, comments, or arguments about the issue of Palestine.” Yet, in order to state his disagreement with it, he acknowledged that Paulin had indeed been disinvited. Dershowitz also acknowledged alleging to the Harvard University Police that Trivers had threatened him, implying that his allegation may have led other University officials to disinvite him. While also claiming that Finkelstein...