Word: wanly
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...happy, left-wing underground, undivided by cultural differences, eagerly awaiting our chance to sock it to global capitalism. The authors' examples of multitude-style international activism--the World Trade Organization riots in Seattle in 1999 or the G-8 protests in Genoa in 2001--have a wan, quixotic air to them. "Eventually, perhaps, the seismic vibrations of each protest will resonate with the others," Hardt and Negri write, "amplifying them all in coordination, creating an earthquake of the multitude." Eventually. Perhaps. But so far the multitude is looking pretty uncoordinated, and the Empire pretty sturdy. It'll take...
...disorder." The local health bureau says the school was closed because it never applied for an operating license. But school founder Li Dan says he applied repeatedly. He suspects the school was shuttered because it was getting publicity. "The minds of the local Henan officials are very closed," says Wan Yanhai, a Beijing AIDS activist. "Their first impulse is to suppress information...
According to court records, in 2002 Wan agreed to a plea deal in which he would confess to sufficient facts to warrant a guilty verdict but would have his case continued without a finding until 2005. He was ordered to pay $4,000 in restitution, and was placed on probation...
...Wan and Wang left Harvard following the investigation and according to Harvard registration information did not return...
...January of last year, Wan’s attorney filed a motion seeking to overturn his client’s plea, arguing that it was having the unintended effect of preventing Wan from regaining admission to Harvard. No action was taken on the motion...