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...other college, this kind of crackdown would be met with moping, retaliatory alcohol abuse, keg-laden protests, and general dissatisfaction. But this is Harvard, a college full of students smart enough to rationalize just about anything. With new regulations looming, our peers have clung to what scant justifications for laxity they can find...
...every category of House tutor and College administrator will soon be found lurking in the shadowy corners of our dorm rooms, waiting for us to break the rules. It is, however, pretty damned unreasonable to think so. And it’s equally unreasonable to think that a real crackdown is underway. Don’t get caught, in other words, but if you do get caught, chances are you won’t be sent home early...
...that hosting the Olympics would shine an increasingly bright spotlight on its dismal rights record. In fact, rights advocates inside and outside China say a string of recent convictions and the imprisoning of activists all over the country are just the latest in a yearlong, wide-ranging crackdown designed to stifle even the slightest sign of dissent ahead of the Games. Even China's huge online population of some 230 million, which is often cited as the country's most powerful force for greater openness, has felt the heat. Thousands of websites have been shuttered while government controls and blocking...
...polls show that fewer than half of voters do. Critics fear a flood of cheap goods and farm produce, and point to China's poor record on the environment and human rights. United Future party leader Peter Dunne is boycotting the Beijing signing ceremony in protest at China's crackdown in Tibet, but says abandoning the pact would be "a classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face...
...think boycotting the opening ceremony, which really gives respect to the Chinese government, is something that should be kept on the table.' NANCY PELOSI, U.S. Speaker of the House, recommending that the U.S. consider not attending the Games' premiere in protest of the Chinese crackdown in Tibet...