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...Dung held an unprecedented online chat with ordinary citizens, in which he frankly answered questions on the economy and press censorship. Meanwhile, state media have published lengthy articles criticizing multi-party "Western-style" democracy as messy and debilitating, while trumpeting the "Vietnamese style" of one-party rule as a guarantor of wealth and peace. "They're saying, 'This is how we do democracy, and it's a really good process... and it's something to be proud of,'" says Gainsborough. Dai, who told TIME before his arrest that he found many members of Vietnam's younger generation hungry for democratic...
...constitution on the Swiss Civil Code.) The secular middle class that grew out of that tradition, filling the ranks of the bureaucracy and profiting from its largesse, has dominated Turkey's political and economic landscape for most of the last century. The Turkish army has served as a guarantor of this successful arrangement. The self-appointed guardians of Ataturk's "Kemalist" legacy launched four coups in response to perceived threats; the latest, characterized as a "soft coup" because tanks did not actually roll in the streets, toppled a forerunner of the AKP, the Welfare Party, in 1997 after...
...series of challenging non-conference games—Harvard plays Michigan and America East champ Albany, among others—but also must break through against the Ivy League powerhouses. Last year’s collapse showed that a strong start in non-conference play is no guarantor of Ivy League success.What began as a promising 2005-06 season for Harvard turned into a nightmare just as the Ivy League season kicked into high gear. After beginning the season 5-0 in non-league play with quality wins over Holy Cross and Vermont, validating its preseason No. 2 ranking...
...volunteer?) units during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s but explains that ?I stopped my military service years ago.? (The Baseej continue to be a major pillar of support for Iran?s hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.) The diplomat, however, suggested that Iran would prove a better partner and guarantor of Iraqi stability than...
...ourselves to high standards, and we expect less from the Islamic Middle East—even though saying so would be impolitic. Expecting no more from America than we expect from our enemies compromises the moral authority we possess over a medieval Islamism. That America has long been the guarantor of freedom, and that the Islamic Middle East has long not been this, has led to an absence of the frank seminars, teach-ins, and study groups that characterize discussions of other timely issues at Harvard.And don’t expect these honest discussions to come from Harvard?...