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...government-run newspapers regularly display generals lavishing money on building new pagodas and monasteries. "The junta has bent over backwards to show how good Buddhists they are," says Josef Silverstein, a Burma expert at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "For them to legitimize a crackdown, they will have to prove that the protests are being led by misguided monks who are actually misusing Buddhism...
...insult. Did the genocide happen or not? It happened. And I don't think any of those [critics] could deny it. What do we need an excuse for? What can't we do, what can't we achieve that we need an excuse? We have a record to prove our worth. If there is something that we need to stand up and fight for, we stand up and fight...
...TIME: How do you explain the 2003 election figure, recording that you won 95% of the vote? A lot of people look at that and say: 'That's just not credible.' Kagame: Why? The burden is on them to prove their case. But I can prove my case. It all depends on the context in the country. In our case, what were the circumstances? People coming out of a genocide. A lot of chaos. So people wanted peace and security, to break away from the past. And they really focused on what could bring that. And what was it? People...
...says Conley, a Stanford M.B.A. (In miniature: Maslow believed that as their basic needs are met, human beings and companies are able to strive for higher goals.) Despite a few New Age-y concepts like "karmic capitalism" and a tendency to throw around phrases like "self-actualization," which will prove a little woo-woo for some readers, anyone who has ever been a wage slave will warm to Conley's compassion...
...conditioning. That’s right—I’m talking about the museum blockbuster, that particular brand of glitzy exhibit put up each June and July in the world’s most renowned museums. Long, snaking lines for admission to the latest art shows prove that the summer blockbuster phenomenon isn’t limited to the movie house. More people visited museums in England in 2005 than went to football matches, and according to the U.K. Department for Culture, Media, and Sport, museum attendance is consistently highest in July and August, rising nearly 25 percent...