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...well and good if science fiction simply gave us dream-like promises of new inventions and a brief introduction to exaggerated scientific theories. But science fiction paints a portrait of human society that is starker and truer than any other genre of fiction. This, of course, is undoubtedly an unpopular idea among more literary types. After all, isn’t the wonderful world of science fiction the territory of pimply, socially awkward teenagers? This would be true if our world was still a world where life was a simple morality play that was played out on the great supernatural...
...average” in a program with an upper limit of around $5,000. After years of raking in the Benjamins, Kwong has a system to navigate the often arduous process of grant applications: “The secret is to apply to the ones that are unpopular,” he says. Because all Harvard Summer School Programs have a fixed amount of financial aid to give out, the programs with the fewest applicants dole out the most cash per person. “For Scandinavian countries that no one ever applies to, you get ridiculous amounts of awards...
However, the courts serve a different role—that of justice. Justice sometimes calls for protecting the minority against the majority, for the unpopular decision. Where an electoral system is in place, this function of the judiciary is undermined further. Prospective justices have to embrace platform issues, such as “ethics reform,” in order to market themselves to voters. Apparently, voters respond well to “tough” judges, which sheds some light on Texas’s 26 criminal executions this past year. (No other state executed more than three people...
...Ironically, the charges will likely strengthen the hand of the AKP at a time when it under pressure to deal with two pressing issues - the Kurdish conflict in the southeast, and wildly unpopular social security legislation sought by the IMF. Erdogan, a powerful orator, does well as the underdog. He raged publicly against the prosecutor's bid, citing a Koranic verse, "They have ears, but they cannot hear. They have eyes, but they cannot see." He appears less confident when trying to govern from a position of power. Just a few days ago, he denounced millions of workers protesting social...
...considered properly popular unless he is admitted to the company of Madame Tussaud's celebrities," the attraction's eponymous founder, the French-born Marie Tussaud told the British periodical Punch in 1849. But she couldn't resist including a smattering of unpopular characters, too. The so-called Chamber of Horrors still displays an anonymous Sans-Culottes standing close to the decapitated heads of some of the French Revolution's aristocratic victims. Nearby a lifeless Jean-Paul Marat bleeds into his bath...