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...China’s words have not translated into action. Its people lack basic freedoms; thousands of reporters, political prisoners, and religious minorities languish in its jails and labor camps. Amnesty International estimates that China executes more people each year than the rest of the world combined. The government??s preparations for the Olympics have placed great hardship on the Chinese people, as over 400,000 people have been evicted from their homes to make way for stadiums and new highways. Few receive compensation, because in China, most land is “collectivized” and technically...
...past few days, the government??s repressive reaction to the popular protests in Lhasa, capital of Tibet, has put China’s human rights record in the spotlight, precisely as the Olympics loom in the horizon. Seeking to control public perception, the Chinese regime has tried to minimize international exposure to the issue. Yet tanks and soldiers will not go unnoticed forever. Tibetans’ demands for autonomy are reasonable, and it is only a matter of time before even the mighty Chinese government has to give...
...Diyara, Linhart worked to construct a town government??using only a bit of creativity and what he had learned in Government 20: “Introduction to Comparative Politics” with professor Steven R. Levitsky. Linhart said that Levitsky espoused the importance of institution building in creating lasting political systems throughout his class...
When asked about the Israeli government??s policy of founding new settlements, Livni expressed some unease...
...general—is to make plain the unclear. “Secrecy,” the new documentary from History of Science professor Peter L. Galison ’77 and Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) professor Robb Moss, inverts this idea. It explores the U.S. government??s systems of classification and official concealment used to keep sensitive information from the public.The filmmakers trace the precedent of the State Secrets Privilege back to a 1953 Supreme Court decision in which the widow of Robert Reynolds (an Air Force contractor who died in a then-unexplained plane crash...