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...parties boosted the Maoist cause by failing to address poverty and social inequity? Thapa: Certainly the political parties have not been responsible and effective and this has caused concern, but that's not the main factor in the insurgency. The main factor is that the Maoists use terrorism to gain support and people are scared. They have tortured people, cut off their limbs and harassed them. It should not have taken this long for the parties to come together and defend democracy against these Maoists, but we are doing...
Totalitarianism’s biggest vulnerability is that it can never truly gain popular support. Recently, more than 500,000 in Hong Kong bravely took to the streets to protest Article 23, an ugly new law banning treason, sedition and subversion that will be used to strip away the civil liberties that people in Hong Kong, unlike those in mainland China, might otherwise enjoy. Their protests serve as an example for mainland Chinese, who must not expect totalitarianism to disappear on its own and should challenge it actively as my friends and I have...
...Amir believes he can gain his father's love by winning an annual kite-flying contest, where boys battle for supremacy armed with kite strings coated in ground glass. He longs to present his father with the last kite to fall: "I'd make a grand entrance, the prized trophy in my bloodied hands. Then the old warrior would walk up to the young one, embrace him, acknowledge his worthiness." Amir wins the battle and dispatches Hassan to capture the fallen kite. But Hassan is caught by a group of bullies who make him an offer: leave the kite...
...Considering that Bush's political bounce from the Iraq war has all but evaporated, what military action will this Administration commence in the fall of 2004 to gain an additional bounce heading into the next presidential election? Anthony L. Bolzan Boston...
...snacks has direct links to the efforts of Dr. Robert Atkins, whose get-thin-quick regimen became famous in the '70s for letting dieters have their steak and eat it too. Atkins controverted conventional dietary wisdom by asserting that eating fatty foods like bacon wasn't what caused weight gain. The real culprit, he said, was carbohydrates--the sugar and starch that are especially abundant in junk food. An estimated 25 million dieters have tried to follow his edict that if deprived of carbs as a source of energy, the body will burn fat. Although doctors and dietitians dismissed...