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...After spending the past summer in Mexico City digging through government archives, Kornbluh wrote his thesis about the government??s reaction to Chinese political factions in Mexico during 1911—the year of the Chinese Revolution...
...While the government has allowed the protests to continue without interference, the memory of the government??s violent suppression of protests in 2007 remains a mark on Saakashvili’s record as a democratic leader. And early last week, a tank division mutinied against the government. Whether or not Russia was behind the plot—as Saakashvili has implied—it is a clear indicator that Georgia does not have full control over its military forces...
...Starve the beast” has been the mantra of anti-tax Republicans for decades. But, so far, depriving the “beast”—big government??of revenue hasn’t led to starvation. The beast has had a credit card, a card with a seemingly perennial teaser rate and a credit limit it can more or less set itself. Republican politicians, who would have lost their power to vote tax cuts to their wealthy donors if they hadn’t been re-elected, have not wanted to be implicated...
...certainly do not pretend to know the answers to the moral quandaries. But I do know that, now that the Sri Lankan state has defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, more commonly referred to as the Tamil Tigers, the government??s value rigidity—all of its black-and-white moralizing of the conflict—must cease if there is to be any chance at a permanent peace and a brighter future. More specifically, as the state finishes off the rebels, it must promise to address the political grievances of the minority groups whom...
...being Asian American] is one of the only reasons we knew his name,” she said. But other students at the event said they were more interested in Yoon’s positions—such as a promise to bring more transparency to Boston government??than his ethnicity. Yoon said he had been prompted to run for the council during an effort to secure land for low-income housing in Chinatown. “I asked myself, ‘what if there had been just one Asian at City Hall or in the State...