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...After Obama's Feb. 5 Super Tuesday wins, Warner says, "we were swamped with phone calls." The budding group of volunteers began calling itself "Yes We Can, Michicana," a reference to Obama's campaign mantra, and the nickname of this hilly region along the Indiana-Michigan border. On the evening of March 5, about 110 people gathered at the St. Joseph County Democratic headquarters to eat pizza and watch the Ohio and Texas primary results. Then came a call from Obama's Chicago headquarters. An Obama representative told them, "Indiana matters," and gave marching orders: first to get a real...
...found sounds” and computer whirrs lead it out. For a band named after another galaxy, “We Own The Sky” seems like an appropriate Reagan-era boast. The track shimmers with hedonistic abandon, flying high on echoing keyboards and the indulgently meaningless mantra, “It’s coming / It’s coming on,” then evaporating instantaneously. At a staggering eight and a half minutes, lead single “Couleurs” composes “Youth’s” center, transforming from a faintly...
...onset of violence in Tibet, Tibetans from the greater Boston community and several non-Tibetan supporters gathered by the T-stop in Harvard Square for their 30th evening of vigils in memory of Tibetans who have died since the March 14th protests. Protesters held candles and chanted a Tibetan mantra wile standing in a circle around a large sign that declared, “China may kill our people but not our spirit.” Dhondup Phunkhang, one of the organizers of the daily vigils, said their purpose is not to attack the Chinese, but to draw attention...
...steeped in a long-standing culture of self-preservation. "Part of the head-in-sand problem has to do with entrenched bureaucratic interests," says China expert Perry Link of Princeton University. Officials who have devoted most of their careers to defending authoritarian rule "can't stop chanting that mantra without puzzlement over what to say instead and without a bit of panic about their own rice bowls and even, almost, their own identities," Link says...
...steeped in a longstanding culture of self- preservation. "Part of the head-in-sand problem has to do with entrenched bureaucratic interests," says sinologist Perry Link of Princeton University. "People who have devoted the last 25 years of their careers to 'opposing splittism' can't stop chanting that mantra without puzzlement over what to say instead and without a bit of panic about their own rice bowls and even, almost, their own identities...