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...might wonder, though, how accepting the parade and its merry crowd would have been if a group of Burmese dissenters, or even a serious group of concerned Americans, had voiced its desire to march in the parade. After all, they wouldn’t be any fun. Who wants to deal with real issues during a parade? Oktoberfest is supposed to be about jollity and getting drunk. After all, if anyone really wants to protest, they can set up a soapbox in the square and hand out fliers—a far more effective and publicly acceptable way of voicing...
Unfortunately, this attitude points to a troubling dilution of political protest and a lack of serious dialogue in Cambridge and in many parts of this country today. There is a fine line between amusing political satire and impassioned political statements, a line which is frequently and haphazardly crossed. Perhaps it is a sign of just how much the president has alienated his constituency; perhaps it is the nature of contemporary political expression...
...other part, however, the environmentalist in me, was revealed to hear that a major corporation finally recognized that global warming is going to have a serious effect on America’s bottom line...
...mired in controversy ever since it was first proposed 88 years ago by Sun Yat Sen, the founding father of Modern China. In 1992, when Chinese Premier Li Peng submitted a proposal for the dam to China's normally pliant parliament, the National People's Congress, it ran into serious opposition and ultimately passed with the smallest margin in the legislature's history...
...Congress, a five-yearly event in which the coming reshuffles of the Party's senior ranks are usually decided. But it's also possible that the criticism is a sign that the Chinese government has reached the point at which it must do something to address the country's serious - and growing - ecological concerns. It's been a turbulent year for China's environment. In May, a blue algae outbreak on picturesque Lake Tai in Wuxi city rendered tap water for 80% of the local families undrinkable for a week. In June, 10,000 citizens in the coastal city...