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Such promises will ring particularly hollow to the scores of Chinese who have found themselves questioned, detained or just plain kidnapped in the months ahead of the weeklong Congress. The run-up to the party's biggest get-together is always a tense time, with security officials desperate to prevent any disruptions. But this meeting, at which the government sets policy goals and anoints a new generation of leaders, set China in a "deep freeze," says Nicholas Bequelin of New York-based Human Rights Watch. In the past, the freeze has always been followed by a thaw that saw detained...
...pain, but is not recognized as humid, foreign, gritty Vietnam long enough for it to become a concrete place.Perhaps Johnson is trying to make a statement about how humans think in metaphor, that we are not literal beings. But, like his portrayal of Vietnam, that conception of thinking rings hollow. Is that really the sum totality of human thought?“Tree of Smoke” is massive in every sense of the word. It is a work that reaches for epic but falls short. It is a work that aspires to examine the big universal themes: love...
...Kouzo’s jagged-shaped porcelains. Having graduated from the Tajimi Municipal Ceramic Design Institute in Gift Prefecture in 2003, Takeuchi, now 30, was inspired by the Mayan ruins that he once studied in school. In his studio, he began to create large pieces made of many rectangular, hollow tubes. But he could not get past that phase. “Before all of this, all I had was a perfect square. It was too perfect. I couldn’t move on. I had this idea inspired by the ruins, but I didn’t know...
...inaction is partly backlash against the discredited American messenger. Torture, "black sites," extraordinary rendition and the bungled, bloody invasion and occupation of Iraq have all made U.S. human-rights appeals ring hollow. But many countries that point to America's abuses are doing so to cover their self-interested, economic reasons for overlooking atrocities in Darfur and Burma...
...Administrative Board claims that it is “primarily concerned for the educational and personal growth of undergraduates, both as individuals and as members of an academic community.” In light of the lack of the student representation, transparency, and proper advocacy, however, that pledge rings hollow. The College must reform the Board, and it should do so without delay...