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...Political times make everything political. So when Trevor Nunn unveiled his modern-dress production of ?Hamlet? this spring, a few picked at Nunn?s presumed avoidance of a political context. ?Hamlet is a political play rife with plotting, intrigue and spying,? Sue Jones wrote in the Socialist Review. ?There is something rotten in Shakespeare?s Denmark, and we see Norway waiting in the wings to invade the state, which is collapsing through the weight of its own corruption. At one point Hamlet speaks of his distress at the ease with which thousands of soldiers are sent to their deaths...
...NARAYANA MURTHY USED TO THINK OF HIMSELF as a committed socialist, but three days in a Yugoslav lockup changed his mind. Back in the early 1970s, while traveling through Europe by train, Murthy was seized by police in a town near the Yugoslav-Bulgarian border. He had been chatting up a fellow passenger in French, and he believes that her boyfriend complained to a cop. Murthy was kept in a room in the train station for 72 hours and shipped out on a freight car. "There was no going back to communism after that," he says...
...other sport. But China's sports system has also been successful by deliberately focusing on Olympic events that were underfunded and unappreciated in the West. When China fully rejoined the Olympic movement in 1984, the country discovered that many women's sports were languishing overseas. Already steeped in a socialist mantra that preached equality between the sexes, China invested heavily in women's sports far before Title IX?the U.S. government mandate to end gender discrimination in collegiate sports?began leveling the playing field in America. "In addition to good training, our women can eat bitterness more than women from...
...member of the Freedom Party pushed a Syrian student under a train in the St. Petersburg subway a couple of months ago. The student was killed. But Belyayev's political engagement leaves him open to accusations of weakness from more radical neo-Nazis. Alex, a member of the Nationalist-Socialist Society, a newly launched movement that seeks to build a "unitary Russian state," says older Nazi leaders "will be wiped out as failures." Future success, he believes, will come from attacks launched by networks of autonomous cells and the use of genetics to achieve racial purity. Alex, a post-graduate...
...event last Friday, sponsored by the Harvard Socialist Alternative, featured five speakers and culminated with a 45-minute address by Nader to a motley crowd of over 500. His speech addressed why he is running for president and what is wrong with U.S. politics...