Word: festers
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Europe is where the bulk of history happened in the 20th century, at least as Americans perceived it. Asia is where it will take place in the 21st--in Israel and Palestine, India and Pakistan, China and Japan, not to mention Iran, North Korea and the floating fester of Islamic radicalism. The saga began last week in Iraq, a country that may soon be perceived as an American showcase, whether we like it or not. Iraq's reconstruction will be as symbolically important as West Germany's was after World War II, but it will be a much tougher project...
...Europe is where the bulk of history happened in the 20th century, at least as Americans perceived it. Asia is where it will take place in the 21st - in Israel and Palestine, India and Pakistan, China and Japan, not to mention Iran, North Korea and the floating fester of Islamic radicalism. The saga began last week in Iraq, a country that may soon be perceived as an American showcase, whether we like it or not. Iraq's reconstruction will be as symbolically important as West Germany's was after World War II, but it will be a much tougher project...
...bribes. After promising to investigate the matter, a government commission has done little since but investigate Tehelka and freeze the assets of its financier, nearly squeezing the business out of existence. Meanwhile, the bureaucrats caught on videotape kept their jobs. "Having begun as an error, it was allowed to fester," Naipaul said of the official harassment, calling it "autocratic." Naipaul is hardly an impartial observer. He sits on Tehelka's board. Still, he argues that such an action against the press is "damaging not only to the government (but) to the country." The BJP had no official response, but Naipaul...
...Hentoff mused, “Let us suppose these codes were in place on every campus in the country. Would racism go away? Racism would go underground, in the dark, where it’s most comfortable.... But racist attitudes would still fester. The only way to deal with racism is to bring it out into the open—not to pretend it has been scared away...
...order to solve the twin problems of not getting what we want from the administration and having our dissatisfaction fester into unhappiness and further splintering, we must be willing to engage in a single campus debate, the result of which will be advocated by our council. I am not suggesting that all students should come into campus debate with identical views; but contrary to the present condition we must channel our disagreements toward a productive compromise. Only if we can enter into a dialogue with our council representatives and be informed enough to elect those that will be accountable...