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Kang's feelings suit Beijing. Since the democracy movement exposed fissures in Chinese society 16 years ago, the government has tried to supplement a fading communist ideology with nationalism through a concerted education and media campaign. The two biggest protests in China since 1989 have been patriotic demonstrations essentially endorsed by the government--one an anti-American conflagration after the Belgrade bombing, the other a series of anti-Japanese protests in April that erupted in several Chinese cities. The latest demonstrations were spurred by nationalist websites and cell-phone text-message campaigns that persuaded tens of thousands to march against...
...North Korea is sending disturbing signals. Pyongyang recently reduced the daily rations of cereals it gives to most citizens to 250 g, half the minimum needed for survival. Thanks to market reforms implemented in the past few years, more North Koreans have been able to supplement dwindling government handouts by buying food at private food markets. But reforms have also caused food prices to soar. The price of rice has doubled in the past year, putting it out of reach of most families. Millions of urban North Koreans have reportedly been sent into the countryside to help with spring planting...
...admire the UC, Veritas, and the concert commission trying to supplement [student social life], but ultimately, I think it’s unrealistic to expect students to fill the role of full-time staff members,” he says...
McLoughlin says that freshmen will be introduced to the Harvard community in “layers,” with five more social events to supplement the traditional freshmen-only ice cream party...
...With the breaking of the McCarthy bubble, things had calmed down quite a bit,” says Rosenthal, who helped assemble The Crimson’s academic freedom supplement in 1955. “It was still an issue, but it didn’t have anything like the fervor or the power it had had in the two or three years previous...