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...worst human-rights violators. Evidently a decision was made not to inflame tensions. World leaders will gather respectfully as the athletes march into competition. As for the Chinese dissidents, perhaps they can take heart from a bit of ancient wisdom: The race is not always to the swift...
Daniel Chenoweth of Geneseo, Illinois fired a warning shot at the eleven-year school mark this past weekend, posting a ridiculously swift time of 8:04.72 in the same event...
...rights advocate, has resigned as a top foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama after calling Hillary Clinton a “monster” in an interview with a British newspaper on Friday. Power’s statement, which she made to a reporter for The Scotsman, led to swift condemnation from the Clinton campaign and a disavowal from Obama. Power has since apologized to both campaigns, saying that the remarks were “inexcusable” and “at marked variance from my oft-stated admiration for Senator Clinton and from the spirit, tenor and purpose...
...Cubans keep those cars running because they have to. When the revolution of 1959 deposed Fulgencio Batista, the U.S.-backed authoritarian dictator, and installed a socialist government with land reform ambitions, the American reaction was swift and uncompromising. The Cuban embargo, at first a stopgap punitive measure, sank into the status quo over the course of decades, banning American trade, then tourism, then remittances, and finally any business exchange with foreign firms that violate Cuban alienation. In a triumph of branding, this last restriction was named the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992, on the presumption that the best...
...violent House,” said Timothy J. Smith ’08, last year’s Adams HoCo co-chair. “But if provoked, Adams House promises to deliver swift, vigilante justice...