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...they pass this test: they must show the country and the world the government can cope with nature's worst. Beijing is aware of the backlash that can come from a slow or ineffective response. The Administration of U.S. President George W. Bush was stained by its sluggish reaction after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans in 2005. Beijing is also painfully conscious of the opprobrium heaped on Burma's military rulers for their callous refusal to allow the international community to help in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, which killed at least 100,000 in early May. China...
...showing all of these international guests the dirty sides of Egypt?’ By the end of the week, most of the photographs were taken down, and there were about three left remaining. I felt terrible. But [the fact] that these images could have provoked such a strong reaction from people showed me the power of the image. 10. FM: Given the sensitive material that some of your work deals with, are there any reactions that stand out in your mind? JN: I remember showing the film at Berkeley, and this question of gory images came up again. This...
Where similar cases, from Rodney King in Los Angeles to Sean Bell in New York, have provoked protests and even violence, the reaction in Philadelphia has been muted ever since a news helicopter caught more than a dozen white officers kicking and beating three black men who were arrested as suspects in a shooting on a city street. "This was just a very unusual situation and I think the public reacted to it as an unusual situation," says Mayor Michael Nutter, who was swift to denounce the beatings after the tape showed on local television. "It doesn't represent anywhere...
...part, Sharpton said he had not come to Philadelphia to provoke controversy. "Reaction to what? I didn't call for any reaction. If I had called a march or called a gathering I can see [why people would say nothing came of it]." He came to do mainly one thing: "I met with the mother." As for Mondesire's comments, Sharpton told TIME, "I guess he's into organizational competition...
Still, if chatter among China's 200 million Internet users is anything to go by, Beijing's decision to allow unusually open coverage of the earthquake has been vindicated. Comments on bulletin boards and blogs were overwhelmingly in favor of the government and approving of its reaction to the disaster. "I almost cried when I saw the pictures of Premier Wen at the front," a typical post ran. "I felt very warm when I read that Premier Wen Jiabao immediately set off to the stricken," another poster wrote. "I feel like our leaders are always with us when there...