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Harvard undergrads have an impulse to strike out on their own—to bypass that which is established and start organizations in which they can be their own bosses and go their own way. Why bother trying to find something you like at the Activities Fair when you can just get your own table to avoid working around someone else’s ideas...
...extreme." It's classic Howard reform. From little things big things grow, as the vernacular poet sang. If he can swing the legislation without significant alterations, Howard will have started a cultural and economic dynamic that will change Australia forever. Over the coming years, workers' capacity to strike will be limited, the income gap between workers with highly prized skills and those without will expand, the role of unions (already losing their relevance) will decline, and Australians' ideas about the relationship between bosses and workers and about a fair-wage safety net will be revolutionized. In Canberra and beyond, Howard...
...support of local officials with its protection of the legitimate interests of common people. Sometimes Beijing punishes local governments in order to defuse popular tension, sometimes it allows local governments to pursue their interests freely. But as unrest continues to mount, how long will Beijing be able to strike this balance without real political reform...
...year-old farmer from the rice-basket province of Hubei, he was praised last year by the Communist Party-owned China Youth Daily for leading a movement to impeach a village chief who residents say was corrupt. The paper told Lu's tale: launching a five-day hunger strike, getting roughed up by thugs and investigating political conditions in other villages across China. When his campaign finally forced his village chief to resign in 2003, the paper said, Lu emerged as "the front runner of peasant grassroots democracy...
...third straight loss would be strike three on Harvard’s season...