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...congress and a judiciary under the control of the Party. Human rights are routinely trampled, even though they are written into the constitution; dissidents are jailed for long periods of time. The Chinese government did not hesitate to send tanks against its own people in 1989, and we have seen what the government can do against the Tibetans and the Uighurs when they dare rise up and ask for greater autonomy. China has become an economic powerhouse, but one result is glaring inequalities between billionaires on one side and the millions of people below the poverty level. Maybe another revolution...
...post office before joining officer-training school and rising up through the military ranks, specializing in psychological warfare. Unquestioning loyalty was "the secret of his success," says Benedict Rogers, co-author of a forthcoming book called Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma's Tyrant. "He always followed orders. He was never seen by anyone as a threat, and therefore was rewarded with promotions, precisely because he didn't really demonstrate any flair or initiative...
...have been really struck by a couple of experiences I had had both as an audience member in the theatre seeing a couple of Shakespeare productions in this very intimate space… I’d seen a lot of Shakespeare that I’d enjoyed, but I’d always felt on the outside of it,” says Benjamin Evett, the Project’s Founding Artistic Director. “In these experiences I really felt a depth, clarity, and power that I hadn’t experienced, and I was really anxious...
Negative capability has nothing to do with the Uncertainty Principle. Uncertainty is the product of a great deal of the most “irritable reaching after fact & reason” the world has ever seen, and has contributed to our most accurate physical theory to date. Heisenberg’s uncertainty, both the consequence and the cause of much “reaching after fact & reason,” is antithetical to Keats?...
...public has been demonstrably curtailed,” Molesworth says. “This is a show that shows what happens when citizens insist that the government meet their needs. I guess I’m interested in sharing that history with people who haven’t seen that kind of thing in action...