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...what they had for breakfast or the saga of their leaking refrigerators. Conventional journalists, like Alex Beam in the Boston Globe, have seized on these slice-of-life bloggers to condemn the whole movement as justification of their own privileged status as those few who should be trusted to wield the pen in a public forum. Beam is half right—the world needs thrice daily updates on somebody’s leaking fridge like the world needs leaking refrigerators in the first place...
...where the main minority group makes up almost 15% of the population. And if that tyranny ever arises, its soldiers are already identifiable and organized in groups allied with the BJP. They bear a frightening similarity to the fundamentalist Muslims who have declared war on the West. The Hindus wield tridents and sticks and talk of protecting the Hindu nation while the latter carry assault rifles and promote an Islamic state. Both feel their holy sites have been besmirched by outsiders. Both may be minorities within their faiths - the vast majority of Hindus are satisfied with their rituals and customs...
...this week with a motion to impeach the county's police chief?Tang Jili?and the vice county magistrate on charges of corruption. It will probably fail, but it's one of the most daring attempts to date of Chinese citizens trying to get at local mandarins who still wield immeasurable power. It's at the county level that taxation and police matters are decided. And although county councils are technically elected, the slates are carefully prepared and "the Communist Party almost always finds a way to assert control over them," says Ding Xueliang, a professor at Hong Kong University...
...enough to stir the ire of the European Commission. Durão Barroso says wryly that this was "only a slight variation of 100%" on the government's 1.1% prediction and that it's probably higher because of trick accounting. He won't say where he would wield the ax but claims he will be tough on the state-funded institutions that grow around Portuguese governments like suckerfish around the mouth of a whale. "There were 130 of these six years ago," he says. "The Guterres government added another 78. Most are to give jobs to the boys...
Summers must also bear in mind the president’s proper role in tenure cases. The president has a great deal of power in Harvard’s complex tenure process, but he must wield it wisely. Departments can best judge the talent of scholars in their field. They can assess the candidates’ academic standing in the community, the quality of their work and their potential for new research in the years ahead. Specialists know their own, and Summers should heed their advice carefully in every case—especially when they speak unanimously...