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...authorities have become increasingly sophisticated in dealing with the territory's demands for greater freedoms. "Beijing continues to give a lot of goodies to Hong Kong," Chan says, in the form of cross-border infrastructure projects and investment. "But," Chan adds, "no matter how good the master treats the slave, the slave should fight for its rights...
There were moments when al-Hakim’s vision may have been too elusive. I was a little confused by the small set of secondary characters who revolved around the play’s core trio. A hedonistic Executioner (Hessel E. Yntema ’09), a lecherous Slave (Jan Luksic ’11), and a witchy Magician (Joanna Stephens) were all fun to watch onstage, but they seemed to exist on the periphery of the play’s thematic obsessions...
...Civil War scholar raised in Virginia, Faust has written extensively on the experience of white slave-holding women and Confederate nationalism...
...when disillusioned, or even to pack up and leave. Even amid widespread grumbling and malcontent, we observe levels of flag-waving usually only seen in the personality cult of a dictator. And while we constantly revise our views of our own Founding Fathers, mourning their unfortunate vices (such as slave-holding), they are still almost deified in our schools and in our popular histories for their promotion of equality and liberty...
Obama's appearance in Des Moines with Oprah Winfrey was startling, the largest crowd I've ever seen at a precaucus event. The Senator gave a riveting speech--and so did the TV celebrity, who riffed on a line from an old movie about a former slave, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, in which the protagonist would ask young people, "Are you the one?" Winfrey then proclaimed, "I'm here to tell you, he is the one." That was probably too portentous for anything but daytime television. But the freshness of Obama's personality, the easy elegance...