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We're not saying that Iron Man (actually, as Tony says, "Gold-Titanium Alloy Man") is some gigantic Gandhi. Nonviolent resistance is a sanctified political strategy, but as the key to Act Three of a comic-book movie, it kinda sucks. For Stark, his cool new gadget is both a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Iron Man': A Movie Marvel | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

Considering that "socially responsible" and "green" funds have prospered in recent years by avoiding companies that sell tobacco or pollute, the surprise since 9/11 is that more money has not flowed into terror-free investing. Advocates argue it is a nonviolent way for Americans to confront terrorism and maybe even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rules of Disengagement | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

Shareef Fam, a member of the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights who was at the protest, said that the protest was nonviolent and that he spoke with uniformed police officers about keeping pedestrian passageways clear at the beginning of the event. He said that Nieves was taking pictures during the...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Arrests Draw Fire from ACLU | 4/13/2008 | See Source »

"I think the big mess was not that King got killed. The big mess is that we didn't make sure that the man who was accused of killing him got his day in court. That summarily ended the nonviolent movement, when we would not stand up for the justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghosts Of Memphis | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

Bowman, who is working on a graduate degree in peace studies by day, sees comedy as akin to a Gandhian exercise in passive resistance. It's a kind of intellectual sit-in - "a nonviolent act that can cause a change in public awareness." An atheist whose skepticism of organized religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy of Terrors | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

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