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...Livingstone loses, it won't simply be due to his association with an unpopular national government. Some of Livingstone's own antics in office have also provoked mirth - and anger. He won international praise for his pioneering congestion charging scheme that levies a toll on motorists entering central London. His calm response to the July 2005 terror attacks on the capital and his leadership in securing the 2012 Olympic Games for the city have also enhanced his reputation. But he's been damaged by the departure of two aides amid allegations of cronyism at City Hall, and he has been...
...consumption, so that it has been rendered, in Wright's word, "invisible." And it is because of that invisibility that Wright's sermons seemed so shocking and out of the mainstream. In reality, the two strands fit together - the unbearable optimism of "I Have a Dream" and the righteous anger of "I cannot be silent...
...from Chinese readers, mostly about my stories on TIME's website or my posts on our China Blog. Some of the criticism can be pretty sharp--that comes with the territory. But the opprobrium has taken on a distinctly unpleasant edge in recent weeks as a wave of nationalist anger has roiled China. "Simon, you will be hated by 1.3 billion Chinese," someone wrote in response to my blog post about the chaotic progress of the Olympic torch through London. "Hope someday someone will spit on your face. Your name will be recorded in Chinese history book forever...
...political situation. “My aim was to raise the consciousness of our situation by spending about two to three hours a day on a simple graphic,” he said. He said his graphics, which featured messages such as “Take your anger to the polls,” were meant to encourage voter turnout and condemn leaders like Mugabe and President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa. Yet panelist Tawanda Mutasah, the executive director of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, said that he believed that Muagabe has continued to hold on to power...
...membership action plans” to Albania and Croatia but declined Ukraine and Georgia’s requests for similar plans. Many NATO member states saw the prospect of bringing these former Soviet states into the organization as dangerous because of the likelihood that their admission would anger Russia. Instances like these illustrate the political tensions that NATO’s exclusion of Russia causes. NATO was conceived in 1949 as a bulwark against the Communist bloc, which formed the Warsaw Pact in response. Even though the Warsaw Pact dissolved 20 years ago and many of its former constituents have...