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Kennedy School Professor Graham T. Allison, whose specialties include Iran and international defense, said that the outcome of those protests is more likely to resemble Tiananmen Square in 1989 rather than Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979. But he added that recent elections, whose results he said were most likely fraudulent, have “significantly weakened” the legitimacy of the “mullah-cracy...
...goes with Monologues. Chinese producers first attempted to stage the play in Shanghai in 2004, but the show was canceled after hundreds of tickets had been sold. Officials reportedly told the director, Li Shengying, that the play was "not yet mature." The same year, however, Ai Xioaming, the professor at Sun Yat-sen, staged the play unofficially with students, filming the process for a documentary called The Vagina Monologues: Stories From China. The play ran title and all, thanks, Ai says, to a moratorium on press before opening night. It's a lesson for would-be directors and social activists...
...Beijing, the production was billed as The V Monologues. In Shanghai, two months later, the original title was restored. The name change was not endorsed by Ensler's camp, and critics were quick to spot the irony. "The point is to speak it out," says Ai Xioaming, a professor of women's studies at Sun Yat-sen University. But Wang insists that his decision was pragmatic: in Beijing, he could not find a venue unless he changed the title. In Shanghai, conditions were different. "I'm more wise than brave," he told That's Beijing, an English-language publication, ahead...
...Lawrence Freedman, a professor of war studies at King's College London, says such rhetoric from Iran may force Obama to move closer to the European leaders in toughening his public stance on Iran. "It will become more likely that the U.S. and Europe will find a consensus if the Iranian regime becomes more oppressive, or as their pronunciations of Western interference become more extreme. You can't give credence to those accusations, and you'll need strong rebuttals from both European and American leaders." (See what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's win means for other world leaders...
...There are already hundreds of North Korean software engineers working in China, in border cities and elsewhere, according to Heejin Lee, a professor at Yonsei University, who has conducted fieldwork in the region. Most work as subcontractors for South Korean, Japanese or Chinese firms - sometimes in joint ventures - and Lee says there are numerous clandestine firms. The North Koreans earn high marks for their scientific and mathematical skills and come substantially cheaper than their Chinese counterparts - $300-$500 a month, one-third the cost of a Chinese engineer, or half the price of an Indian one, he says...