Word: freedom
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...When you came to the States, you stayed with a Quaker family. How did that experience affect you? Andrew Sun, Los Angeles It was during the Vietnam War era, so my eyes were opened to a lot of things about the world: democracy, freedom, choices and the responsibility that is tied to freedom and choice. In [the new film] A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, the daughter says, "I learned a new language, I learned a new culture and became a new person." And that's really what I went through...
...Many experimental musicians started with rock, before slowly abandoning it for the freedom and creative space that is experimental music," says Lao Yang, the owner of Sugar Jar, a tiny record shop in Beijing that serves as the epicenter of this burgeoning avant-garde. Michael Ohlsson, a Shanghai-based music promoter, speculates that musicians are being drawn to the experimental scene because the music being produced is a purist's form and often has no lyrics. As such, it is far less likely to offend officialdom than, say, punk, which tends to be much more verbose, socially engaged and populist...
Fussell's more focused book limits itself to American beef, but somehow feels more expansive and ambitious. In puncturing mythology of the West, she pits The Cowboy against The Machine: On one side are the old-timers, so in love with nostalgic ideals of land and horizon and freedom that they fail to realize that the cattle industry is a rich man's game, made for those on the other side with the money, fuel and machinery that go into making cattle so profitable. Like Beef, and many books before it, Raising Steaks reminds us that as tasty as burgers...
...schools where only certain political beliefs are encouraged. Consequently, we support the Manhattan Federal District Court’s recent ruling in favor of a New York City policy prohibiting public school teachers from wearing political paraphernalia in the classroom. Teachers, like all other citizens, reserve the right to freedom of speech and expression. However, this liberty does not justify any behavior in the classroom, especially if it comes at the expense of students’ best interests. Just like employees in any other sector, teachers are held to certain standards of conduct: A teacher cannot spend science classes expounding...
...hundred and thirty two years ago, a group of rebellious men in wigs and high heels signed a piece of parchment boldly declaring their freedom from the tyranny of King George III, thus giving birth to the United States of America. Today the descendants of those men (most of whom would probably chose George III over our current George W.) commemorate this event with backyard barbeques, beer and blowing things up. Revelry on “the glorious Fourth” can reach such epic proportions that the following day, July 5th, becomes entirely devoted to recovery, turning it into...