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Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life By Winifred Gallagher 244 pages; The Penguin Press...
...outlook, at least more so than his political contemporaries, fostered an atmosphere that enabled new ideas and thinking to emerge. During that time, it was not uncommon for Chinese students to, for the first time, read about western political treatises, thoughts on democracy, liberal governance, judicial independence, the free press, checks and balances of government, and other ideas. "Every book was out quickly - books that aren't even allowed in China today," said Zhou Qing, who spent almost two years in prison for his participation in the 1989 affairs. It was also a time when a new generation of Chinese...
...site, which launched in 2003 and now boasts over 20 million users, plans to appeal the court's conviction. During the online press conference, Sunde scoffed at the fine thrown at the firm, holding up a scribbled I.O.U. to the camera. "Stay calm," he appealed to users on Twitter a little while earlier, "nothing will happen to [The Pirate Bay], us personally, or file sharing what so ever ... this is just theater for the media...
...Prefect Ruben Costas suggested Thursday's events might be a government stunt orchestrated by Morales, who has declared assassination plots against him on several occasions during his presidency but had yet to offer proof. "Anyone can see that this is a crude staging, a show," Costas said in a press conference, adding it could also be the government's way of deflecting attention away from a bomb that exploded outside the Santa Cruz house of a Roman Catholic Bishop, Julio Terrazas, who is a vocal critics of Morales. Costas and the opposition claim that pro-government forces planted that explosive...
...good faith negotiations that big unions in the U.K. and Germany are granted out of hand, out of management's respect of their power," Groux says. "Meanwhile, unions and protestors turning to radical action here wind up competing with each other for the media coverage that creates - since big press is what creates pressure on bosses and the government to concede. The result is, there's constant obligation to up the ante to ensure protests don't wind up ignored...