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...hoping to shield his son from the world's anguish and thereby stanch any desire of Siddhartha to redeem it. A pleasure dome he decrees, turning the top floor of his palace into a lurid seraglio and confining Siddhartha there, "ensnared by women skilled in erotic arts/ who were tireless in providing sexual delights." The teenage St. Augustine would have been jealous...
...buzz around the Beijing Olympics, the most puzzling is the idea that the Games will "introduce" Americans to China. The world's oldest civilization? Home of 1.3 billion people? Tireless exporter of goods and importer of jobs? Introduced? Haven't we already...
...July 10, Hong Kong's legislative body passed the Chinese territory's first-ever law against racial discrimination. The bill was in the works for more than a decade, the product of tortured haggling over clauses and amendments and tireless campaigning by members of the city's vocal civil society. Yet the passage of this landmark legislation has been met by anything but elation. Its original proponents see it as too weak, while some suspect the Beijing-backed government would rather it had not passed at all. "It's very shameful," says Fermi Wong, director of the minority advocacy group...
...also led more than a few initiatives. She has done the work of at least two employees, all the while being active in Mission Hill and The Seneca, completing her College education, and winning the Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award. She is tireless and selfless and amazing. We will miss her more than words can express...
...translator is still in jail!” people would murmur words of support, but little more. Mallory Simon at CNN has been the only journalist to act in solidarity and maintain interest in Mohammed. Joel Campagna at the Committee to Protect Journalists has been an excellent and tireless resource...