Word: respectibility
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...exchange.So the question is—what’s the issue? Contemporary manifestations of the East in Western culture seem only questionably problematic. Gone are the days of heavy-handed imperialism, replaced in fact by an often sterile and over-politically correct culture of zero assumptions. Due respect is paid in the arts as well, often accompanied with a dollop of irony, and protest seems to be founded more on paranoia than due cause.The mixed reception of “The Mikado” has everything to do with its audience. I suspect that this play has met with...
...worry about. Kasparov, of course, knows that a rigged match cannot be won. But he has tried nonetheless, ignoring the arbitrary repercussions that would follow his political activism. His devotion to truth and determination to alert the world to the rotten state of Russian politics deserve our deepest respect. We can only hope that the sacrifice of his safety—and that of others like him—will be worthwhile in the long run. Under Putin, Russia is bound to continue to distance itself from the rest of the democratic world. His cronies have been skillfully exploiting anti...
...raft of constitutional reforms that would have profoundly tightened his hold on political power in Venezuela - including an amendment to eliminate presidential term limits (which currently last six years). Instead, Chavez's Vice President, Jorge Rodriguez, appeared as the night wore on and told reporters, "We will respect the result, whatever...
...Council and in the University administration—another major obstacle to dialogue among a necessary range of perspectives about University policy and practice. I asked them, as my partners in the pursuit of truth and fairness, to add their thoughts and efforts to creating a conversation full of respect and free of intimidation about even the hottest of issues—a conversation in which people with a broad range of reasoned opinions and historical perspectives are actively invited to participate, a conversation in which the majority and the most highly placed people do not assume that, once they...
...where everything seems to be inter-something (international, interdisciplinary, intercultural) it’s surprising that the world has not been blended into one big smudge. Although the Silk Road Project falls under the category of “inter-”, it has attempted to balance a respect for tradition and a cosmopolitan outlook. As part of their five-year residency with Harvard, the Silk Road Ensemble has spent the past week developing a chamber arrangement of Uzeyir’s Azerbajani opera “Layla and Majnun.” Before departing on a tour...