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...debut showing in Phnom Penh, he has been regularly returning to the city of his boyhood to hold workshops for aspiring illustrators. "It's important to try to approach the reality of our times," he says. "This is a media that only needs a pen and paper to express something." He is also helping to publish the nation's first anthology of up-and-coming comic-book artists, (Re)géné Rations: The New Khmer Graphic Novel, due in June. In so doing, Séra and his collaborators are blowing the dust off a subculture that...
...Defense is cracking down on universities that oppose military recruitment on campus, with an announcement last month that requires schools to give all employers the same access to student information. The policy also closes a loophole that allows schools to ban military recruiters from campus if no students express interest in the military. Harvard has experienced a sometimes-fractious relationship with the armed forces since the Vietnam War. More recently, the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which forbids openly gay people from serving in the military, has conflicted with...
...transformational experience for the musicians," Barenboim says. "Being an orchestral musician means you have to express yourself to the utmost while simultaneously listening and responding. That's an important skill for conflict resolution--and for life...
...media corporations, and other parties involved in the Games to communicate concerns about Chinese financial links to Sudan; highlighting the dark side of Chinese political activity to potential commercial parties; dispersing information about human rights violations as widely as possible; strategizing means for fans and athletes (whose ability to express political opinions is limited, the result of Olympic charter and U.S. Olympic policy) to participate in activist efforts—these and other tactics can be steps in the direction of protesters’ underlying goals. As the opening ceremonies draw ever closer, we wish athletes and activists alike...
...though American boycotts of the Olympics are unprecedented. In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. In response, the United States and most other NATO nations boycotted the Moscow Olympics the next year. By reducing the Olympics to a contest between Communist nations, the West was able to express its anger at the Kremlin’s misdeeds. If a host nation’s aggression against a neighbor warrants a boycott, surely a host nation’s aggression against its own people warrants one as well...