Word: freedom
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...Hyakunin Isshu are waka: 31-syllable verses of five lines. Like the better known haiku, which they spawned, waka have a brevity and a strictness of topic and word-choice that demand economy of expression. They exemplify the idea that art is born of constraints and dies in freedom. But imposing restrictions that are unnatural in English has doomed many translations. McMillan succeeds by following a more sensible rule: abandoning the stipulated meter, but making the poems as lyrical in translation as they are in classical Japanese...
...which he is the constant victim." But instead of joining the chorus of black voices swelling with nostalgia to return to their African roots, Douglass stayed put. Poet Langston Hughes grieved in verse that "(America never was America to me) ... (There's never been equality for me,/ Nor freedom in this 'homeland of the free')." But his lament is couched in a poem whose title, like its author, yearns for acceptance: Let America Be America Again...
...Inside Higher Ed. Chicago law students have expressed mixed opinions toward the ban. “There are students who use the Internet as a brief distraction during class and as a way to recharge, and there are other students who find it extremely distracting and welcome the freedom from it,” said Sara A. Feinstein, a third-year law student and president of the Law Students Association, the school’s student government. “We decided not to pursue a change in the policy, because of the very mixed student body reaction...
...territory's 1997 transition from British to Chinese rule. Under the current "one-country, two systems" policy, voters in Hong Kong may directly elect half of their 60 legislators, but Beijing retains the power to appoint the territory's chief executive. Lee has doggedly lobbied for greater electoral freedom for Hong Kong citizens. "Martin is for Hong Kong what Aung San Suu Kyi is for Burma, and what the Dalai Lama is for Tibet," says Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, the Washington D.C. pro-democracy organization that awarded Lee its Democracy Award...
...hour ahead of time, with a bagpipe band of law enforcement players warming up at street level. We walked down the ramp that brought us four stories below street level to the footprint of one tower of the World Trade Center, with a giant billboard above heralding the Freedom Tower, 2012, bordered by yellow cranes and cement foundation walls. In the ceremonial square, a single large pascal candle, used at Easter and funerals to represent new life and resurrection, stood above a small reflecting pool and a symbolic plot of earth. We soon realized that there would be only...