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...This year, in the run-up to the 20th anniversary on Thursday, authorities have outdone themselves. In addition to the usual steps - forcibly moving activists and dissidents from Beijing and preventing others from leaving their homes in the days leading up to the anniversary - China's Internet police have shut down a range of websites and message boards in an apparent attempt to restrict any discussion of the issue. Web monitors report that some 6,000 chat rooms and message boards in China have been blocked by censors known collectively as the "Great Firewall." In addition, social-networking services like...
...flag” beforehand in anticipation of widespread student opposition. House administrators, including incoming Pforzheimer House Master Nicholas A. Christakis, said they were concerned that the potential cut, coupled with the closing of the Quad library next year, would disproportionately af“The decision to shut down the Quad library was shocking,” said Jen J. Gong ’12, who will live in Cabot House next year. “That, combined with the scaling-back of the shuttle service, was worrisome.” However, Gong said that she felt the College administration...
...Joseph O’Conner, claimed that its passage could force the company to shut down and prevent new high-tech companies from moving to Cambridge...
...think of the world as studded with allusions, teeming with hidden meanings. We lap up explanations and cure-alls; we accept the experts’ forecasts (never mind that they got us here); we tape on our rose-tinted glasses, cross our fingers, squeeze our eyes shut, and hope with all our hearts for change—the kind we can really believe in. That’s faith, real faith, and it’s being practiced on a massive scale in households all across...
...Near Eastern religions. His grand assertion one day that Islam and Judaism are the only two truly monotheistic religions prompted me mischievously to ask why the Hebrew god is sometimes called “Elohim,” a term ending with a plural marker. He told me to shut up, because he had been studying the topic for over a dozen years. That this fellow scholar did not receive tenure is a comfort to me. However, I cannot but recognize the ethos of which he is an unsophisticated manifestation. The cult of expertise—and the pride...