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...they aimed to do no more than bring afternoon tea or the metric system to those in less fortunate lands.) Stripped of all its justifications, imperialism means rule by someone else. In the 21st century, it is implausible to expect an occupied people will accept such a fate happily. But, as we have learned recently, there is another reason why imperialism carries the seeds of its own failure. Grand designs to remake nations are dreamed up in the groves of academe and the corridors of power. They are implemented, however, by young men (and women, too, nowadays...
...country's largest opposition party; in Tokyo. Former leader Naoto Kan resigned earlier this month after being implicated in Japan's ongoing pension-payment scandal. Formerly the party's secretary-general, Okada accepted the post reluctantly after other prominent party members declined, saying that it "may be my fate" to lead...
...when she met Rajiv Gandhi at a Greek restaurant in Cambridge, England. The couple shunned politics, but the 1984 assassination of Rajiv's mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, thrust him to the head of India's leading political dynasty. On the day Indira died, Sonia predicted the same fate for her husband. "I begged him," she later recounted. "I said he too would be killed." A suicide bomber assassinated Rajiv in 1991. Sonia was not eager to take his place, but in 1997, with the Congress Party floundering, she relented. With her victory, her son Rahul, 33, declared that...
...greatest works of art are inevitably turned into kitsch, their fame exploited to sell the most banal products. Guernica adorns T shirts, the Mona Lisa is woven into welcome mats, Sunflowers brightens up your morning coffee mug. Edward Hopper's Nighthawks has suffered the same fate. Prints of the iconic 1942 painting of a gloomy diner have shown up in several generations of American college dorms - there's even a mouse pad. Has reproduction robbed the image of its morose power and reduced Hopper, one of America's greatest artists, to the ranks of the one-hit wonders...
...time when new diseases menace the very survival of the Cavendish variety of banana we eat every day, responsible production is the only sure way of guaranteeing that the next species of consumer banana doesn’t meet the same fate. Harvard students should do their part in the global fight for progressive, sustainable and responsible agriculture by insisting that Fair Trade bananas join their Mountain-grown, caffeinated coffee bean cohorts in all Harvard dining halls...