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...walked into the Science Center earlier this semester, I was confronted by a motley mob of students, all partaking in some sort of protest activity: signs waving, slogans being chanted, flyers being thrust in front of startled students. Removing my iPod’s ear buds, I scowled skeptically at the group for a few seconds and listened. Satisfied that this was nothing terribly new, I lowered my head and began to work my way through the crowd to class. As I was about to push my way through the revolving doors, a flyer-wielding youngster—probably...
...protests? Because all you do is talk, and I don’t have time to listen to you whenever you want to talk and protest something...
...when she was sidetracked by a brief item on the death of Bobby Sands. Using lack of knowledge as her passport, Dean spent the next nine months flitting between Provence and Belfast to record the memories of republican and loyalist paramilitaries, British soldiers, prison officers and the Catholic and Protestant residents of Belfast's working-class housing estates. The hundreds of hours of tapes she amassed would have made a startling documentary, but using real names can cause trouble. Instead, she crafted a drama with two main characters: Kathleen Moran, a Catholic mother of four living on the front line...
...Those Chinese who protest against the whitewashing of World War II events in Japanese textbooks have often been presented as a mindless mob. Suppose, however, that a German textbook claimed that Nazi actions during the war were justified as a defense against Jews and communists. There would understandably be a huge uproar across Europe. Japan's wartime atrocities were crimes against humanity comparable to those in Europe, yet they have been below our moral radar. John Butler Kidderminster, England...
...them to face a nightmarish fate, is criticized for ignoring basic Geneva Convention obligations. The United Nations gets the harshest criticism. Becker spends a chapter cataloging the failures of U.N. aid agencies during North Korea's famine. Their chief mistake, he writes, was their failure to speak out in protest against Kim: "This undermined the credibility of those that accused Kim Jong Il of allowing millions to die and made the United Nations a silent partner in the North Korean holocaust...