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...wasn't really, of course. The U.S. is too big, too rich, too well-armed to be anyone's equal. But being big and rich and well-armed does not make you a leader. Followers make you that, and the loyalty of followers has to be earned by more than a great speech and an inspiring life story. If Obama did not know it before (though one suspects he always did), he surely knows it now: it was easy being a celebrity; it's tough being a President...
...Historically, environmental protection has been the province—almost exclusively —of relatively rich white men and women. The lack of involvement from inner-city and minority communities is one of the greatest failings of the movement. While environmental justice issues involving these communities have garnered increasing concern in the last several years, the problems with engaging a broader audience run deeper than environmental justice issues...
...construction initiative aiming to create new classrooms and student spaces, scheduled for completion in 2011. The three wood-front mansions—1637 Massachusetts Avenue, 3 Mellen Street, and Baker Hall—served for the first time as residences for Law School students this year. The rich history of the three houses motivated the Law School to preserve their original exteriors, while the interiors—which had been renovated numerous times—were gutted and subsequently remodeled to accommodate student housing. Douglas J.D. Walo, the Law School’s housing administrator, said that the buildings were...
...reveals the lines of connection - some hidden, some potential, some accidental - between these lives and gives each of them vast, rich interiorities, news reaches Muddy River of Beijing's Democracy Wall movement (in which reformists posted calls for political change on a wall in the city center). It is followed by more shocking news: just before her execution, Shan's kidneys had been harvested for an influential Communist Party official who needed them. A fledgling protest haltingly tries to gather momentum in Muddy River - but when the democratic movement in Beijing is suppressed, Muddy River's hopes of change...
ever meet. I look forward to becoming immersed in Harvard's rich...