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...like a First Amendment “what would Jesus do?” He said, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter...
...city's real history. Avoid it. Instead experience real colonial splendor at Face, located on the verdant grounds of the Ruijin Guesthouse. Face combines two restaurants and a sumptuous bar in an ornate mansion built in 1936. The two eateries offer northern Thai and Indian food, the latter in a romantic tent complete with wooden pillars and fountains. Never mind that you're in China and not eating, you know, Chinese food: Shanghai prides itself on offering up the best of whatever global nosh you're craving. After all, this is the city where the favorite soup is not wonton...
...colossal egos. When the screen wasn’t showing close-ups of Jagger or Richards, it displayed various images and the group’s logo, the huge red tongue created by Andy Warhol. A secondary stage in the middle of the arena, left tantalizingly empty until the latter part of the show, let the Stones get right in the middle of the crowd. Flashy special effects and pyrotechnics were kept to a minimum in the indoor show, but the Rolling Stones still knew how to work the crowd...
...democratic values; and it is precisely for these reasons that consensus often becomes morally impotent in international contexts. Consider, for example, the international community’s fine consensus to remove the United States from the UN Human Rights Commission while retaining such luminaries as Sudan and Libya (the latter of which will chair the commission next year). The fact that this outcome was agreed to in no way made it right, although the fact that it was agreed to by dictators, tyrants, and thugs did make it predictable...
...Board of Overseers will at least respect the arguments and motives of all those in Cambridge and elsewhere, racially and religiously diverse, who call for an end to knee-jerk financial support of a regime with a shameful record of racism and official terrorism toward impoverished, displaced people. The latter, by the way, deserve human rights regardless what views they themselves have come to hold toward Jews, Israelis or Americans...