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...generous wage for a fresh, up-country reporter, the temptation to leverage one's press card is considerable. The system, says Espina-Varona, "is not just saying, 'Let's be a little tolerant of corruption.' It's actually saying, 'This is what you have to do in order to exist.'" Even if there were no economic concerns, it's hard to remain politically aloof in a small town, where everyone knows everyone, and local strongmen-from mayoral candidates to logging magnates to crime bosses-are often eager to win over the local press or silence it. "When...
...place that distinctly lacks distinct identity. That is the downside of diversity. As a whole, there is no compelling mission that binds us here; the university does not exist to make us “Men and Women for Others...
...arrival at Harvard in 1988 was no relief—Harvard’s Half-Asian Peoples Alliance did not yet exist, and as she recalls, “there were all these real Chinese people, and I really didn’t feel Chinese...
...college doesn’t exist in a vacuum,” he said, “but is affected by the levels of drinking and laws about drinking around...
...which went into force in 2002 and forbade the execution of juveniles, has been signed by every nation in the world except the U.S. and Somalia. Somalia is in a state of anarchy. The U.N. is not normally a place for bandwagoning; given the vast number of countries that exist, there are dozens of cultural perspectives on the place of capital punishment in society. That representatives of each of these viewpoints could come to similar conclusions is prima facie evidence of a moral fact...