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Since the proclamation of emergency, the government has arrested hundreds of opposition politicians. Countless lawyers have also been arrested to preempt another organized movement against the government like the one earlier in the year. On Nov. 4, the police raided a meeting of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and arrested 70 human rights activists, including its president, Asma Jehangir. When university students began to organize protest rallies on campuses around the country, the police ruthlessly fired tear gas and baton-charged protesting students...
...dancer, d’Amboise described the fetus’s experience in the womb, a motif he would return to in his discussion of “Apollo.”“The blood is pumping and they begin to feel rhythm through movement. Momma’s running for the bus, Momma’s asleep,” d’Amboise said. “So we are born of movement. We are born of rhythm. We are born of the expression of time. And we use that, throughout life, to express emotion...
...dislike a book in which nearly every major event takes place near the Yard and nearly every major personality is a graduate of the University. Philip Gura’s “American Transcendentalism” is full of Harvard references, showing how deeply connected the Transcendental movement was to the University. But though it may be amusing to hear about Harvard’s bicentennial, there is much more to Gura’s complex history of American Transcendentalism. Starting with the Transcendentalists’ European influences, he traces the shifting ideas and proponents of the movement. Rather...
...after midnight in Jakarta and, below a highway overpass, a party is just getting started. Students and the unemployed are listening to well-worn cassette tapes, swigging from bottles filled with a cocktail of beer and local wine and loitering in front of Movement Records - a punk-music shop that has become a nexus for local youths. It is also home to Onie, one of Jakarta's self-proclaimed original street punks, who both works and sleeps on the premises. "It is very quiet at night," Onie says. "The shops are closed, so society is O.K. with us being here...
...Although they are from different backgrounds, Onie's cohorts all proudly call themselves punks - a name first coined 30 years ago. His gang must be one of the last anywhere in the world to use the term today, and stepping inside Movement Records is to walk into a shrine to another era. Posters and stickers of their heroes - bands from the 1970s such as the Sex Pistols, the Ramones and the Clash - adorn every inch of wall space. "Punk is about freedom," says Onie. "People can choose what they want to do and what they want...