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...debated by large numbers - a tribute to its unique status as China's freest society, and a reminder of the widely held view that China can truly move forward only when the 1989 protesters have been rehabilitated. "We have been China's conscience," said journalist Ching Cheong, who quit a pro-mainland Hong Kong paper in 1989 in protest against the crackdown...
...abysmal week for Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister's Labour Party slumped to third in the Euro vote with just 15.7% of the vote, far behind the opposition Conservatives and trumped even by the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP), a fringe group whose singular focus is to get Britain to quit the E.U. altogether. Worse still, the far-right British National Party (BNP) picked up two seats in the Strasbourg Parliament, its first ever. "It was," said Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman, "a very, very bad defeat...
...impatience with technology is not entirely without productive potential. A number of recent studies, for example, have confirmed that we are better multi-taskers than our parents, a fact poignantly illuminated when Firefox asks, “There are 40 tabs open. Do you want to quit anyway...
...move to Harvard in 1996 to become the Assistant Dean for Public Service and Director of Phillips Brooks House was a restart for public service at the university. To some staff and many students it appeared that Dean Lewis was choosing a force quit option when, in reality, the forced change was a chance to reinvigorate how and where our students participated in service opportunities...
...Harvard… he was part of some change that I thought was positive on the whole and was an example of a kind of activism that was pretty new for me. He didn’t strike me as someone who was anti-democratic, so I was quite hopeful,” said Barker. Barker recounted how Castro’s visit was the crest of a wave of visits from leaders and nationalists from African nations and Cyprus and that it was part of a trend of “big changes...