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...Dynastic rule is, of course, not exclusive to Asia. In Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will succeed her husband Néstor as President. A recent study on the U.S. Congress discovered that congresspeople who stay in office for many years tend to have relatives serve in that chamber in the future. And with Hillary Clinton currently the frontrunner in the U.S. presidential race, America could face 28 years with either a Clinton or a Bush in the White House. In too many nations worldwide, politics is still, sadly, a family affair...
...which China has a major hand in the modern world. “Everything is complicated and so interrelated...I guess all you can do is to be more informed about what’s going on at every step of the way,” said Nicholas N. Culbertson...
When Alex N. Harris ’08 walked into his first Libertarian Society meeting his freshman year, there was only one item on the agenda: “Disbanded!” In the fall of 2004, according to Harris, the then-president of the Society concluded that his senior thesis was more important than a faltering club...
...Sheffield practices what he preaches, spending summers working on police violence and domestic abuse research in places like Argentina and his home town of Fayetteville, N,C. As he waxes eloquent on philosophy and his love of Marx (he claims that the two nights after the first time he read Marx he didn’t sleep), Sheffield’s frustration with the perception of libertarianism is clear...
...pagans. “I really like paganism and I enjoy hanging out with pagans. My own religion is something I make up myself out of many things,” says participant Jonas Roy, a 23-year-old Boston resident. Others were more dedicated to the cause: Natalia N. Chernenko, an MIT senior and president of the PSG, has been studying various forms of witchcraft for six years. Samhain is a time when pagans celebrate the cycle of death and rebirth, explains Phoenix, the priestess of the ceremony, who declined to give her real name. Participants are cleansed...