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...those who sought other outlets, the great array of clubs, societies, sports teams, and even a newspaper that consumed its students’ lives offered equal opportunity to those presented by Harvard. And since Oxbridgians only took exams at the end of the year, they were even freer than Harvard students to throw themselves wholly into college life, sports, and any sort of extracurricular you might imagine. NATHAN A. PAXTON Cambridge, Mass. September 19, 2006 The writer is a resident tutor in Winthrop House and a Ph.D. candidate in the government department...
...unofficial "house" churches like the one that sparked the clash in Hangzhou. "Politically, China hasn't changed at all," says Dennis Balcombe, who has spent the past three decades evangelizing in China from his base in Hong Kong. "But as far as religion is concerned, it is much, much freer...
...Reed, it sometimes appeared, Christian voters were pawns in a game of power swapping. The Journal-Constitution reported that the man who had once condemned China for its one-child policy and its persecution of Christians had created a "grass-roots" Christian group to lobby for freer trade with the superpower--an effort quietly financed by major U.S. corporations like Boeing that were the Georgian's true clients. The profits Reed collected from such dealings were not, by any indication, the wages of illegal behavior. But to some they were the wages of sin. "He got nailed for being...
...only significant departure from the U.S.'s small-country bias has been with Mexico, first in the creation of NAFTA and then when Washington bailed the country out after its financial crash in 1994. Paying attention to Brazil would involve offering an attractive trade agreement that would grant freer access to the U.S. market for Brazilian steel, shoes, orange juice, ethanol and other products that currently face import barriers. The costs for the U.S. economy would be relatively minimal. For Brazil, such a deal would stimulate exports, drive investment and lift the economy...
...socked away over $70 billion in a rainy-day fund. More than 6 million Russians a year now take foreign holidays. There are more than 100,000 U.S.-dollar millionaires. It's also true, as Lyne argues, that Russians have rarely been so free. "They are vastly freer than the Chinese. They can live well and have fun. They can read, watch, say what they like and access the Internet." Perhaps unsurprisingly, in polls Putin's approval ratings are high, nearly 70%. But these positive trends coexist with many signs that Russia is stumbling on the path toward free-market...