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...numerous self-help seminars, where factory girls pay to learn how to improve themselves and find better jobs: "It was the strangest jumble of ideas I had ever encountered, combining the primacy of the individual with rules that were at once New Age and rigid...the message was modern - express yourself, be confident - but it came with traditional assumptions: You will lift up your whole family....I noticed something: the students did not fall asleep. They did not look bored. No one ever left to use the bathroom during the two-hour class; they were afraid they might miss something...
...cannot begin to express how...proud, amazed, humbled, and in awe I stand before and next to him as a friend and supporter of such great human endeavors,” she wrote...
...Obama pins, stickers, and posters flooded OM Restaurant & Lounge last night as supporters of Democratic nominee Barack Obama gathered to raise money and express their enthusiasm for the upcoming election. The standing-room-only event—entitled Harvard for Change: An Evening with Harvard Faculty for Obama—was hosted by Harvard’s myriad Democratic student organizations, including the Harvard Kennedy School Democratic Caucus, Harvard College Democrats, Harvard Business School Democrats, and Harvard Law School Democrats. Jarret A. Zafran ’09, president of the Harvard College Democrats, stressed the event’s goal...
...teachers union. The United Federation of Teachers has sought a temporary restraining order against a district policy that bars teachers from wearing campaign buttons in the city's public schools. The prohibition, union officials argue, is a violation of teachers' First Amendment rights to free speech and political expression. "It doesn't matter whether you support Obama or Republican Senator John McCain," UFT president Randi Weingarten said at a press conference. "As voters, we all should have the right to express our views...
...impact of a few hundred fans booing and whistling during the playing of La Marseillaise, traditional before an international match, could be measured by the outpouring of rage from scandalized French politicians. They were falling over one another to express outrage and find effective sanctions against those responsible, and deterrence against any recurrence. Ironically, it took the politicians longer to give coherent expression to their anger over the greed-driven global financial crisis than it did to excoriate some rambunctious soccer fans...