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...secure, they would demand better governance, greater freedoms. But that hasn't been the case in Russia, China or Central Asia. People in those places have found a way to disengage from politics while growing (mostly) more comfortable. Consumerism has provided the ultimate anesthetic. Perhaps there is no next stage. (See pictures of the Berlin Wall...
...Taylor Branch's new book The Clinton Tapes - woven from Branch's recorded conversations with the President from 1993 to 2001 - the portrait of the relationship between Bill Clinton, a man who never knew his own father, and his daughter reveals a side we rarely saw on the public stage. Bill Clinton, it turns out, raised a daughter and ran the free world, sometimes in that order...
...caused the U.S. director of national intelligence to note that Yemen was "re-emerging as a jihadist battleground and potential regional base of operations for al-Qaeda." With a base in Yemen, al-Qaeda could launch attacks on the Red Sea gateway to the Suez Canal, as well as stage operations against Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf...
...informal lectures followed Thursday’s 19th annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, but added a new twist to the quirky distinction.Joined on stage by a young child identified only as “Miss Sweetie Poo,” the speakers were routinely interrupted approximately five minutes into their speeches by the girls’s cries of “Please stop, I’m bored...
...serious issue for many college students, but they should be governed by mutual respect between roommates, not by administrative decrees. The etiquette of having guests over to a communally inhabited space can be difficult. Yet college students must learn to handle these situations themselves. College represents an intermediate stage of independence; the maturity to deal with this kind of situation should be cultivated by students, not deferred to university sex regulators...