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...Harvard will forever rule like they want to, a dictatorship that will never care about students,” the anonymous commentator wrote. “The ad board should reflect the democratic opinion of Harvard students in our community, not the arbitrary opinion of out of touch deans that did not go to Harvard...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak and Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: College Preps For Ad Board Review | 11/20/2007 | See Source »

...four of those detained are members of Viet Tan (Vietnam Reform), an organization of overseas Vietnamese working for political change in the motherland. According to the group, the banned materials the activists were distributing included a booklet called "From Dictatorship to Democracy," a summary of peaceful democratic movements from Eastern Europe to Indonesia and the Philippines. "This was simply a peaceful expression of these people's beliefs," says Duy Hoang, the group's Washington, D.C.-based spokesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam Arrests a New Activist Breed | 11/20/2007 | See Source »

...nominate the Burmese people. This fall the world watched as tens of thousands of Burmese citizens took to the streets in nonviolent demonstrations and their country's military dictatorship responded with violence. I, like many other Americans, was awed and inspired by the courage of the Burmese people, who risked death and imprisonment in their demand for basic human rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Be Person of the Year in 2007? | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

Newt Gingrich Former Speaker of the House and a co-author of A Contract with the Earth, a book on environmentalism There are moments when courage and commitment change the human spirit. After decades of tolerating a brutal dictatorship, the Burmese monks are reminding us that the love of freedom is universal. Their willingness to die for the freedom of others should lead us to want to live for those same beliefs. They have given the world an inspiring vision of hope and determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Year 2007 | 11/8/2007 | See Source »

Omer Aftab ’10 and other Pakistani students have joined a Facebook group called “Society for the Objection to Emergency Rule in Pakistan,” which denounces Musharraf’s move toward dictatorship...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pakistani Students Criticize Musharraf | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

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