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...foreign technology and organizational skills onto their own economic and political infrastructure, so that they could achieve the delicate task of strengthening their country rather than undermining it from within. This selective and gradualist approach allowed China to keep at least a measure of faith that it was somehow preserving its own inner value system even while using the West in a host of developing areas. During this 19th century period--as during the 1980s and into the present--the effects of this attempt on the worlds of political culture were profoundly ambivalent. It turned out to be impossible...
...ground among extremes." "In America," says Kwan, "I am free to choose any definition oflife I please." Perhaps, but I certainly hope I am not free to act on any definition of life I please. A great many American citizens once held that people of darker skin tone were somehow less than human beings, and therefore to be enslaved or disposed of as those Americans saw fit; fortunately, such people were eventually prevented from acting on their particular definition of human life. I am not free to redefine life as excluding the old, the infirm, or a child the moment...
...activists were able to impose their morality upon the rest of the nation," says Mr. Kwan, implying that the two issues--Prohibition and abortion--are on more or less the same level. Aside from the fact that both movements consisted of "activists" intent on changing the law, I somehow do not see much of a connection. The abortion debate strikes such raw nerves because it is fundamentally about human life and whether or not I or anyone else may arbitrarily decide on it's definition. Prohibition was fundamentally about whether or not people ought to consume alcohol. If that being...
...change (for better or worse) of the motion picture industry from the director-driven, art-oriented days of the early seventies to the big-budget, star-vehicle, action-adventure, special-effects nineties. A country of 260 million people has few pieces of shared experience, and it is somehow comforting to participate in one that doesn't involve an assassination or a verdict or a car chase but the simple act of viewing a film which everyone has seen, at a time when everyone is seeing it again--when the first-night shows sell out a week in advance...
...thrilled with the outcome," Kugel said. "It wasn't just the money. Somehow, there was this great energy that had never been there before, and with a good turn-out of students, faculty, staff and alums, it was such a community event...