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...Explosions of “awareness” are a new thing. In the last serious decade of student activism—the 1960s—people tended to campaign for more concrete reforms. Curiously, this spate of “awareness” arrives at the nadir of political participation among college students in recent decades. The more “aware” we are, it seems, the less we actually...
...attack on a Pakistani Air Force bus that killed eight military personnel and wounded dozens more south of Islamabad, Thursday, brought this week's death toll in suicide bombings to 15. But the spate of increasingly violent attacks on targets associated with his regime is only one of the many threats confronting the embattled President Pervez Musharraf. Challenges to his authority from the courtrooms of the capital to the rebellious mountains of the northwest have once again raised the specter of a declaration of martial law in Pakistan...
Competence and honesty are two words for the GOP that--following a recent spate of ethical scandals--have proved elusive. Yet 36-year-old Jindal, a second-term Congressman, was able to win Louisiana's highest office (a position that has almost always been held by a Democrat) on a platform of ethics reform and eliminating corruption. Following his January inauguration, Jindal will be the nation's youngest Governor, one of the Republican Party's few rising stars and the first Indian American to occupy a Governor's mansion...
...safety will be vetted by Chinese officials and by those from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, which has an office in Shanghai to monitor the project. Beyond Asia, ACAC hopes to sell the jet in the U.S. and Europe. It's not clear if the recent spate of quality issues faced by Chinese manufacturers of low-end products, such as toys and clothing, will ultimately hurt ACACs chances. "Customers could hesitate because it's made in China," says O'Neill of Deloitte. "Airlines will be conscious of such talk...
...there is a fine line between this recent spate of narcissist activism and real activism that seeks to change the world. Since our impact on a larger, national scale is minimal, I’d like to believe that all of our campus activists haven’t become afflicted with the now-common inflated sense of self. And despite the problems, our campus also has some examples of provocative, but effective, campaigning...