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...situation like this, the Russian people are reduced to pawns with very little free choice. When threats, indoctrination and dishonesty are allowed to flourish, even a fake democracy loses the ability to maintain its disguise. The events of the past week would be absurd but, tellingly, they did not shock many. President Putin, hiding in the Kremlin and protected by favorable public opinion, has had a crucial opponent arrested for taking part in a demonstration. The timing could not be better: With well-known chess grandmaster turned democracy advocate Gary Kasparov behind bars in the run up to the election...
...Dines’ shock-and-awe tactics made for an entertaining two hours, but she is hardly a beacon of insight on the subject of porn and culture. Hers is the wearying rhetoric of the worst sort of feminism, a strange collision of puritanical morality and radical politics. She’s right that American society is increasingly sexualized (though we remain much more publicly chaste than many other Westernized countries), but to attribute a loosening of female sexual mores to porn is illogical, sexist, and degrading. For those who ascribe to Dines’ school of thought, a woman...
There is no known cure or vaccine for Ebola, which has symptoms of nausea, fever and muscle pain. Humans, chimpanzees and gorillas usually die of shock when the virus attacks capillaries and blood vessel linings, draining the body of blood in a vampire-like manner. The new Ugandan strain kills patients by inducing high fever, without much loss of blood, according to Dr. Sam Okware, head of Uganda's national hemorrhagic fever task force...
Amir Yacoby, an Israeli condensed matter physicist, had a few qualms about moving halfway across the world to join the Faculty at Harvard. Among other factors, he feared the possibility of culture shock and the adjustments his family would have to make after the move...
More specifically, different histories following the imposition of free-market policies deliver a similarly damning verdict. In Russia, for example, where the transition to full-fledged capitalism was facilitated by our very own institution, “shock therapy” begot a country where 74 million people were living below the poverty line. As the journalist Naomi Klein has noted, given that only two million were poor in 1989 (defined here as living on less than $4 per day), this “means that Russia’s ‘economic reforms’ can claim credit...