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The appeal to nationalism, predictably enough, brought an avalanche of outrage. Rui's online petition to remove Starbucks from the Forbidden City garnered half a million signatures; the Beijing News carried the story; Starbucks PR people made placating noises (there are already 200 outlets in China and the company aims...
In May 2001, TIME published my article about democracy denied in Qixia. A few weeks later, the four Qixia village chiefs showed up at our Beijing bureau while I was out. "There are some peasants to see you," an alarmed assistant informed me. "They seem quite scared. You'd better...
Last Tuesday, a sufficiently large minority of the Massachusetts Legislature voted to advance a 2008 ballot referendum that, if approved by the Commonwealth’s electorate, will impose a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. In so doing, the Legislature compromised one of the most fundamental principles of our...
Later that month, Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06 and Benjamin B. Collins ’06, both Eliot House juniors at the time, launched an online petition calling on Harvard to pledge that it would not invest in stocks tied to Sudan.
The petition had garnered about 1,000 signatures by the following April, when Harvard bowed to divestment demands and sold its PetroChina stock. All seven other Ivy League schools subsequently announced divestitures from Sudan-related stocks.