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...from the balcony and loudly cheered each time a presenter mentioned the night’s theme: “redundancy.” The night also included a three-part opera entitled “Redundancy, Again,” as well as various “Scientific Demonstrations?? and other humorous skits. Marc Abrahams, the event’s lamé donning emcee, mingled with a host of others—including Nobel Prize Winners William Lipscomb and Benoit Mandelbrot—onstage. At one point, two lucky audience members won dates with the octogenarian Nobel...
...Demonstrations??they’re very symbolic, they rarely accomplish anything towards your goal,” Barnhill says, looking back on that evening. “But it gets people on board and it establishes an environment of action, and I think that was important because so often we settle things with discussion...
...wounded at least 18 others. The farmers had gathered peacefully to protest city and township corruption. Then, on Wednesday, a Beijing factory worker named Chi Shouzhu was arrested as a pro-democracy “counter-revolutionary.” He will be imprisoned not for inciting pro-democracy demonstrations??not even for promoting democracy—but for printing out information from a pro-democracy website on a friend’s computer...
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