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Even more daunting, according to scholar Huang Jing, is the institutional resistance to change. Huang, currently a visiting fellow at the University of Singapore's East Asia Institute, says there is a huge bulwark of entrenched officials (in the United Front Work Department - a bureaucracy dealing with Tibetan matters - the Public Security Bureau, Foreign Affairs, the Religious Affairs department, the Communist Party in Tibet and the Minority Affairs Department) who have spent their lifetimes railing against "spilittism" and not only can't imagine any other approach but would fear losing their jobs under any new arrangement. Thus, Huang says, essentially...
...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 joined Western organizations like the European Union (EU), NATO still exists. As a Western military alliance it continues to play a significant role...
British imperialists set the migrants up to be a bulwark between themselves and "barbaric" blacks. Class and race divisions were institutionalized and internalized. Asian settlers saw indigenous Africans as Calibans - as crude, lascivious and untrustworthy as The Tempest's half-man, half-demon. Africans, in turn, detested the brown interlopers. To them, Asian merchants were like Shylock: usurers and exploiters...
...college applicants surveyed saying that their stress level was “high” or “very high.” The administrators had divergent views on the issue of applicant angst: Fitzsimmons emphasized the Admissions Office’s accessibility as a bulwark against stress, while Pilbeam said that the strains of the admissions process are impossible to avoid. “How could it be made less stressful? We’ll still have approximately the same number of new places, and...my guess is that the number of qualified applicants will stay the same...
...contradiction between the U.S.'s stated aim of advancing democracy around the world and its actual practice of backing friendly dictators like President Pervez Musharraf when it suits U.S. interests. The Bush Administration will retreat to its co-dependent relationship with the dictator, regarding him as the only remaining bulwark against a Taliban-style fundamentalist theocracy armed with nukes, and will probably flirt no more with any notion of a truly democratic Pakistan. These chickens will one day come home to roost. Mark C. Eades, Oakland, Calif...