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...this part of the world - is power-mad. The media and judiciary still aren't nearly independent enough. The opposition, whom Vice Prime Minister Temuri Yakobashvili dismissed as "losers, naifs and traitors," says it is persecuted for its dissent. "This energy and force [Saakashvili] has inside is a rare quality," says Sozar Subari, who was until recently Georgia's public defender. "But unfortunately, he used this to strengthen autocracy, not democracy...
...first is that pockets of true anonymity online are very rare and individuals should govern themselves with that in mind,” he said. “Second is how blunt a lawsuit really is as a tool to fix what the plaintiffs in the case wanted...
Today it’s as rare for Harvard students to become involved in Cambridge issues as it is for a Cantabrigian to vote in local elections. The reason I’ve paid attention for so many years is that I just can’t shake what Craig Kelley said to me during that early morning interview. Making public education work in Cambridge has proved to be far harder than most people thought, but in the past year the stars have begun to align. When Cambridge voters go to the polls next Tuesday, I hope they mark their...
...rare pictures from inside North Korea...
...message resonates: that, as Griffin puts it, they are "shut out in their own country." Disenfranchised and alienated, such viewers will have drawn a different lesson from Question Time. They saw Griffin attempting to hold his own as politicians from Britain's mainstream parties, showing a rare unanimity of purpose, attacked and belittled him. Yet politicians in Britain are at best damaged goods, their authority sapped by constant partisan skirmishing and their reputations tarnished by recent revelations of Westminster's venal expenses culture. In that context, their joint assault on Griffin, heartfelt as it was, could read like the establishment...