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...colorful assemblage, the marchers represented a diverse spectrum of concerns and movements. Global health activists (including myself), environmentalists, labor rights activists and the ever-photogenic flag-burning anarchists all gathered to voice their criticisms of the World Bank and the IMF. While some of the protesters demanded outright abolition of these institutions, many others called for changes of a different sort. They were concerned about the pernicious effects of particular policies or the adverse consequences of specific institutional structures...
Orthodox opinion in the Democratic Party holds that there was never any real linkage between Saddam Hussein’s regime and Osama bin Laden, and the Bush administration either “exaggerated” or outright lied about such a connection during the build-up to war. This assumption has become pervasive on talk shows and editorial pages. Indeed, many Democrats and liberal pundits speak as if the Baathist-al Qaeda connection had been conclusively refuted...
...point system is founded in the logic that race can be quantified, which it cannot, and the system’s advent into our nation’s colleges has been marked by outright discrimination. Rather than ask what an individual student’s ethnicity will contribute to campus—as the Harvard and the University of Michigan Law School systems do—it merely assigns points based on the color of a person’s skin...
Hopes that the death of Deng Xiao Ping, China’s leader during the massacre, might bring political reform were crushed when Jiang Zemin, the Communist Party’s third-generation leader, rejected reform outright. My friends and I, more disgusted than ever with the totalitarian regime, drafted a document published simultaneously in the U.S., France and Taiwan challenging the Chinese government to carry out sweeping reforms. Called “China Needs a New Transformation—Program Proposal of the Democratic Faction,” its revolutionary content frightened the leadership...
...Vodafone to take control. And last week, Vivendi's board signed off on a plan to increase its stake in a Moroccan telecom firm. But if he wanted to focus principally on telecommunications, then Fourtou's most logical move would have been to sell the U.S. entertainment assets outright; Edgar Bronfman Jr., who originally sold Universal to Messier and is on Vivendi's board, offered $8 billion in cash. Fourtou himself acknowledges that he doesn't yet have a final strategy. One possibility, he said last week, is to split Vivendi into two companies: one focusing on entertainment, the other...