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...superdelegates should vote, we are reduced to what will be universally perceived as an exercise in bare-knuckle politics. All the racial, gender, generational, and income contradictions in the party will play themselves out in an undemocratic process that will be utterly lacking in transparency. Paranoia will be rampant and dissatisfaction with the final result, whenever it is achieved, will be profound...
...emergency in January last year, many Bangladeshis applauded. Campaigning by the country's two main political parties had descended into violence and opposition parties were threatening to boycott the poll. The new military-backed Caretaker Government brought peace to the streets and promised to clean up Bangladesh's rampant corruption, fix its institutions and hold clean elections. One year on and there is no doubt the government has begun the work it set itself: two former prime ministers are in jail awaiting trial, hundreds of other senior officials have been arrested, and the slow if important work of overhauling some...
...Human Rights Watch says that tens of thousands of people have been arbitrarily detained and abused by security forces over the past 13 months - most of them without the connections Khalil had to help set him free. "Rampant illegal detention and torture are clear evidence of Bangladesh's security forces running amok," said Brad Adams, Asia director of Human Rights Watch, in launching the report. "Tasneem Khalil's prominence as a critical journalist may have prompted his arrest, but it also may have saved his life. Ordinary Bangladeshis held by the security forces under the emergency rules have no such...
...class is otherwise pain and misery. A study card has more in common now with an income tax form than with an expression of intellectual curiosity. It’s easy to file this commentary into a bin of wistful idealism, but there are very real ramifications to the rampant quantification of our academic life. The Q simply wasn’t designed to be a first stop in course selection, and it’s ridiculous to think that we can gain very much in the way of useful information from a string of highly subjective numbers...
...past videos—with the extending necks of “Get Ur Freak On” and camera curvature of “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)”—were better attempts at 3-D than the lackluster gestures rampant throughout. The video’s true success is not the added dimension but the choreography. Borrowing from Bollywood and American dance styles of the ’20s and ’50s, the moves extend beyond the oft-impressive but expected break dancing in Elliott’s videos...