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...Lenlen says she is happy to have joined a group that is "guided by Marxist-Leninism and Maoist thought." But as a high-school dropout from remotest Mindanao, it's not clear how much she truly knows or even cares about such matters. By contrast, Victor-a well-educated cadre from a "petit-bourgeois family" (his words)-gives an eloquent if specious defense of the N.P.A.'s core ideology. No communist state has ever collapsed, he argues, because none has ever existed. East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia-none had "true" communist governments when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, while...
...David Cameron: I don't really know him very well, and I don't know what his approach will be like. He seems more ?there's less light and shade than with Blair. So I think probably there will be a bit of a contrast...
...cede the black vote to Obama either. John Edwards ran strongly among black voters in winning South Carolina in 2004 and his message about reducing poverty and strong rhetoric about pulling troops out from Iraq - a war black voters have consistently opposed at higher percentages than white voters - contrast with Obama's more cautious positioning on that issue. Both Biden and Connecticut's Chris Dodd appeared last week at Martin Luther King Day events in South Carolina...
...about which courses will count under the new requirements, three undergraduate focus groups concluded yesterday. In a letter sent to the Task Force on General Education, the students expressed broad support for the task force’s philosophy of general education as preparation for life after Harvard. In contrast, the current core emphasizes exposure to different academic approaches to knowledge. But the students expressed concern that the proposed categories could become little more than a renamed core. Without concrete guidelines, “many professors will continue to teach a disproportionate number of overly specialized, specific classes that speak...
...contrast between Soi Cowboy and the neighboring streets is all the more striking, because the majority of Thai women are quite modest. Their collars are high, their hemlines low. Their bra straps do not peek out from under their shirts. A local newspaper recently ran an advice column counseling that girls should not get their ears pierced before the age of 18. Walking the residential lanes of Bangkok, you rarely see decolletage or muffin-tops, those rolls of flesh that peek out between hip-huggers and shrunken tank-tops. But then you turn a corner and a clutch of women...