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...Perhaps the most interesting Orwell - Lu Xun parallel concerns 1989's Tiananmen crisis. Audiences outside China, appalled by the government's use of lethal force against the students and the cynical cover-up campaign that followed, found it natural to criticize the Orwellian behavior of China's leadership. In China, it was just as natural for critics of the government to voice their outrage via quotations from Lu Xun's famous essay on the slayings of 1926 - allusions that all educated Chinese recognized as a potent way of saying that the current regime was little better than the hated warlords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Orwell | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...most Filipinos do not want him to enter politics there, as evidenced by his lost bid for a congressional seat in 2007. The good name he has painstakingly built for himself would be tainted, if not lost, as soon as he entered that lion's den. Instead, he could use his popularity to unify divided Filipinos, especially during election time. Such an act would boost his place in Philippine history more than any public office there could. Ron Covar Perth Amboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...most Filipinos do not want him to enter politics there, as evidenced by his lost bid for a congressional seat in 2007. The good name he has painstakingly built for himself would be tainted, if not lost, as soon as he entered that lion's den. Instead, he could use his popularity to unify divided Filipinos, especially during election time. Such an act would boost his place in Philippine history more than any holding of public office there could. Ron Covar, PERTH AMBOY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give 'Em Hell, Hillary | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

This year, the HRO leadership has opted to use a politically-correct, alternative moniker for that age-old tradition known as "Secret Santa." The festivities will now be called 'Super Sexy Secret Secular Santa,' according to HRO percussionist Elizabeth C. Bloom...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Are You My Super Sexy Secret Secular Santa? Oh My! | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

Harvard will attempt to use what it learned this past weekend in Georgia to defend its current undefeated Ivy League record when it returns after a month-long break to go head-to-head with the Quakers of Penn...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Takes Fourth in Georgia | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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