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...China Quarterly, Professor Kevin O'Brien of the University of California, Berkeley, describes how repression can often backfire and actually make activists more respected by their communities. If that happened in China, its rural population could be further radicalized. It was Mao Zedong who famously said a "single spark can light a prairie fire." Men like He may not know it, but they are holding burning brands in their hands...
WILL THERE BE WAR? Ecuador's President called the raid a "massacre," and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez added his own bombast about U.S. efforts to spark a regional conflict. But experts say Venezuela and Ecuador rely too much on trade with Colombia to start...
Admirers called the civil rights activist an "icon," a "spark plug" and a "mother figure." For Johnnie Carr, Rosa Parks' childhood friend who helped engineer the landmark bus boycott that led to the desegregation of public transportation in Montgomery, Ala., history-making was not the point. "We were thinking about conditions and discrimination," she said. As a member turned president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (she succeeded the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.), she organized car pools during the boycott and enrolled her son in the all-white Montgomery school system in a legal test case. Carr...
...game-tying layup to send the game into overtime, Lin shot 9-of-15 from the floor for a team-high 20 points. He also had seven boards, three assists, two blocks, and two steals for a stellar all-around performance.After a relatively quiet first half, Lin was the spark that ignited the Crimson’s roaring comeback, scoring six of team’s points during its 15-0 run to end the game.“I didn’t come out with the energy I should have and that’s obviously my fault...
...UNIFIL, has been watching developments warily. One senior UNIFIL officer said that neither side probably wants to go to war at the moment and that Hizballah's alert in the south was "defensive." But the officer said the "situation in the region is so dangerous that the tiniest spark can start...