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...alienation: they are doomed to demonization simply by being Japanese. As the civil liberties of Middle Eastern immigrants in today's America are eroded by the war on terror, When the Emperor Was Divine serves as a cautionary reminder of the damage governments inflict when they indiscriminately punish the innocent in the name of national security...
Dissent: Fix Advising, Don't Punish Students...
...even videotape the proceedings. Secret police hang around the scene to observe any covert behavior, like whispered conversations or note passing. Inspectors have been reluctant to ask any scientist to be interviewed outside the country because the security forces brandish lists of relatives whom they are ready to punish if the scientists give anything away. Thus far none have agreed to leave Iraq...
...Summers called the idea of an academic boycott against Israel an “absolute outrage.”Although Summers and other academic leaders have been outspoken in their condemnation of the anti-Semitic double standard applied to Israel, there is still some support for action to punish the Jewish state...
...remarkably picturesque mountain village of Phoenix on the Sky. The work is tough and the conditions harsh. Even worse, all books are banned?except little red ones. Western music is equally verboten as Ma, the film's violin-playing narrator, discovers when the village chief threatens to punish him for playing a Mozart tune. Quick-witted Luo saves the day by explaining that the name of the song is "Mozart Is Always Thinking of Chairman Mao." You can see the forlornness in the boys' eyes as they begin to sense the worst fear of every teenager: they are going...