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...have to do something, I cannot remain quiet,” she says...
...It’s been a relatively quiet year for PSLM, but at the same time it’s been a rebuilding year,” says Faisal I. Chaudhry, who was a first-year Harvard Law School student when he participated in the three-week Mass. Hall occupation. “There’s a new current on campus in terms of student activism. PSLM has not only been reconfiguring itself, but also trying to figure out its relationship to these other currents...
...course, these ready arguments did little to quiet the self-righteous baying of social conservatives this year. At times, it seemed those on the right thought gay marriage would do all the awful things their predecessors had blamed on such pernicious moves as racial integration and the introduction of the New Deal. Allow gays and lesbians to marry, they argued with remarkable creativity of hatred, and soon enough people would be marrying children or their pets. (Clearly enfranchising an arbitrarily deprived subset of adult citizens is but a step away from enfranchising their infants or their dogs.) Or perhaps...
...We’re trying to bring about a quiet revolution in the way that work is designed,” he said. “Our members have a lot of experiences suggesting that traditional ideas about supervision are really psychologically corrosive, and that in the long term, being bossed in a hierarchical way is one of the most harmful things that can happen to a human...
That may not be enough to quiet the widespread sentiment in Baghdad, among ordinary Iraqis, that the reconstruction process has become another murky theater of corruption. Muhanad Nassiri, an architect, said his firm has bid on a dozen contracts, including one for a security system for the Iraqi National Museum, but has never been successful. "All the tenders are terminated early, and all the tenders are given to the same companies," another Iraqi businessman says. "If you look at the awards list, you will find many of the same names." KBR has acknowledged that it uses the same vendors repeatedly...