Word: virtually
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...communist power, the Internet has become the battleground of ideas for both Hong Kong and Beijing. Even as pro-democracy activists are staking out the Web as the only place where they may be able to elude China's restrictions on free speech, China is trying to build a virtual Great Wall around the tiny city to protect Chinese Internet users (100,000 so far) from unregulated western communication. Hoping to offer the world "a porthole through which concerned observers . . . can view the significant period in Hong Kong history," one Hong Kong group last week launched an online weekly called...
...theory, the Internet allows anyone to tap into fertile fountains of fleeting information. Had de Tocqueville visited this country today, there is little doubt that the Internet would have taken first place as the (virtual) civic institution par excellence. Democracy in America could only imagine such potential for civic engagement. No longer limited by under-funded public libraries or the high cost of owning books, any netizen can strive toward informational parity with CEO's and government bureaucrats alike...
...proverbial best and worst of times. The best included the freedom that being a Harvard undergraduate offered--reasonable housing, relatively accessible professors and tutors, all within close range of greater Boston and its attractions. Harvard Square transformed its staid self into a virtual carnival of hippies, druggies, politicos, panhandlers and townies curious to watch...
While these virtual expatriates will find shops, cafes and banks in their villages, they won't find a schoolhouse. Rather, they'll be living in the language of their choice: playing sports, re-enacting historical and political events and tuning in to their village's simulated radio and TV stations. There is little point, reason Concordia's leaders, in becoming proficient in a language and not absorbing some of the Weltanschauung of the country in which the language is spoken...
These are important questions, but with the U.S. a virtual foreign policy-free zone lately, there has been almost no debate outside the diplomatic and academic community about NATO extension. There will be more after the July NATO summit, and it should be thorough. Critics will question whether the U.S. should get more deeply involved in Europe. They will focus, properly, on the cost of expansion--$35 billion overall, according to the White House, vs. the $125 billion Congressional Budget Office estimate--and argue that defending London is one thing, but Budapest? Proponents of expansion will counter yes, Budapest...