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...History warns that revolution lurks within these "contradictions," but history also reminds us how beleaguered regimes have traditionally dealt with the volcano inside. The classic prescription is to "busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels," as Shakespeare's Henry IV told his successor. It is hyper-nationalism and xenophobia that fuses regime and people, rich and poor, losers and winners in one Great National Whole. Jingoism is the traditional antidote against discontent and revolt, and the Chinese have been made to lap from this fount aplenty. Remember the week-long war of the aroused masses against the U.S. diplomatic compound...
East Timor's tragedy was touched off when Suharto successor B.J. Habibie off-ered its people a referendum on whether they wanted to split from Indonesia. They voted yes, but Habibie wasn't in control of his own military. The men in uniform had spent two decades trying to get East Timorese to accept their place within Indonesia, and many felt betrayed. The carnage was their retaliation...
...names in the rumor mill. Lee C. Bollinger’s name made headlines during the Harvard search. Media speculation suggests that the president of the University of Michigan may once again dominate the news as Princeton draws closer to finding Princeton President Harold T. Shapiro’s successor...
...recent interview with The Crimson, Bollinger—a renowned First Amendment scholar and champion of affirmative action—said he does not wish to put Michigan through a search for a successor at this late a date...
...Wythes said that candidates have been interviewed both with and without the knowledge that they were under consideration to be Shapiro’s successor...