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...time last year, Jackie Hung was working 24/7. As the organizer of Hong Kong's second July 1 pro-democracy march, Hung was swamped by daily meetings with political groups, NGOs, and the authorities to discuss turnout and crowd control. She'd dash from the printers, where she would vet T shirts, to subway stations to distribute pamphlets. Food was an afterthought-takeaway noodles or a steamed pork bun on the run. Hung's hours paid off. The rallies on July 1 in 2003 and '04 both drew a mix of half a million marchers-workers, professionals, businesspeople and just...
...time last year, Jackie Hung was working 24/7. As the organizer of Hong Kong's second July 1 pro-democracy march, Hung was swamped by daily meetings with political groups, NGOs, and the authorities to discuss turnout and crowd control. She'd dash from the printers, where she would vet T shirts, to subway stations to distribute pamphlets. Food was an afterthought?takeaway noodles or a steamed pork bun on the run. Hung's hours paid off. The rallies on July 1 in 2003 and '04 both drew a mix of half a million marchers?workers, professionals, businesspeople and just...
...soon be doing the same outside Korea as well. Part blog, part professional news agency, OhmyNews gets up to 70% of its copy from some 38,000 "citizen reporters" like Chang-basically anyone with a story and a laptop to write it on. Editors vet the articles, rejecting nearly one-third. Launched in 2000, it has snowballed into a kind of raucous online mall for Korea's wired younger generation-a place to get news, absorb the buzz or just hang out. It is also giving young Koreans a political voice, upending the conservative traditional media models of their parents...
...committee mindset. We disagree. The Harvard student body demands two things from its UC representatives: accountability and enthusiasm. Committees should not be able to blame the entire UC for passing poorly planned expenditures that their members bring before the council. More work needs to be done in committees to vet proposals beforehand. To ensure this level of accountability, UC reps must be fit—both in expertise and inclination—for their committees, which in turn must be encouraged to end their reliance on the full council to make all the tough decisions on the merits of each...
...appetite to it, but by and large it was a noble gesture. The Sox, in another nice twist, were introduced in the order in which they longest-ago signed with the team, and so the retired Ellis Burks, a rookie with the team 18 seasons ago and an aging vet who rejoined the club in '04, went first, followed by Wakefield, whose tenure stands at ten years. Wakefield kills the Yankees but is a man of sterling character. Every single Yankee applauded him. I was happy to see the assistant massage therapist and assistant visiting clubhouse manager (maybe the toughest...