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...rise since last month's announcement that Shanghai's Communist Party Secretary Chen Liangyu - a prot?g? of Jiang - had been dismissed from his post for allegedly misusing hundreds of millions of dollars from the city's pension fund. Chen's removal and the detentions that have, in its wake, ensnared other power-brokers believed to be allies of Jiang, have fueled theories that that President Hu and his predecessor are engaged in a factional power struggle. Thus when Jiang and Hu appeared together last weekend to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Communists' historic Long March, many speculated that they...
Critics have painted groups like SLAM as small bands of wild-eyed idealists getting together in rooms to dream up their next cause or campaign. Yet activists do not wake up one morning and decide that workers need a raise or a union, or that Coca-Cola and McDonald’s are evil. Nor do we demonstrate, march, take over stages, go on hunger strikes, or occupy university buildings because we feel like...
...wake of the recent fracas between immigrant rights protesters and border control vigilantes at Columbia, students and pundits alike have been pontificating about what student activists should or shouldn’t say and do. Yet much of the debate, from the O’Reilly Factor to the “Kremlin on the Charles,” has remained out of touch with the realities of campus activism. In fact, we are not rabblerousers with pipedream goals who like to make a scene. We are dissidents with purpose who want to remake our community, and in the process...
...overtime victory over Yale in New Haven.It was a win for the ages, with a maturing-by-the-minute O’Hagan leading the second-half comeback and finishing 22-of-35 for 251 yards and two touchdowns.But then came the summer of controversy, during which, in the wake of the arrest and suspension of former captain Matt Thomas, Crimson head coach Tim Murphy mysteriously docked O’Hagan the first five games of the upcoming season for violating team rules. The suspension left the starting quarterback job to Chris Pizzotti, a Massachusetts native who missed the entire...
...which they continue enrichment while facing limited sanctions will ultimately force the West to make more concessions to Iran's terms. That confidence is helped, no doubt, by the crisis in Iraq, where the U.S. prospects of stabilizing the situation may depend substantially on Iranian cooperation. In the wake of North Korea, Iran's response to the threat of U.N. sanctions may well be a Farsi equivalent to President Bush's "Bring...