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...regime, have been issued a list of stern guidelines. According to the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper, "delegates are advised to put on suitable clothes, to avoid taking a bath at unreasonable times, and [should not] eat junk food." More ominously, they must avoid "speaking ill of others," mentioning "topics that are not related to the matters being discussed," and expressing "disloyalty to the State." Anyone who criticizes the forum is subject to a prison sentence of up to 20 years. Speaking to people inside Burma by telephone, I felt the sense of frustration that the convention...
Incidentally, none of what I have just suggested is disproved, or even called into question, by any exceptions—and I do not deny that there are some. To take just one example, a grassroots effort, however ill-conceived and poorly informed it may have been, was impressively able to thwart Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s proposal to replace shopping period with a regime of preregistration...
...there is another reason why imperialism carries the seeds of its own failure. Grand designs to remake nations are dreamed up in the groves of academe and the corridors of power. They are implemented, however, by young men (and women, too, nowadays) who are far from home, bored, sometimes ill-educated and often frightened. If you are a high-minded imperialist, sooner or later - whether in a village in Kenya, a Casbah in Algiers, or a jail in Baghdad - your young soldiers will get you into trouble. They will do something so foolish or impetuous or horrible that all your...
That the sequestering of an ill—or ill-prepared—student seems far-fetched may be a testament to the efficiency of the exam administration...
...often remarked that Americans—hardheaded hegemons—never learn from their mistakes. Egregious lapses in foresight, ill-fated invasions and the illiberal use of diplomatic finesse are common fodder for this critique. But this coming November, voters can’t play the part of imprudent Americans. As the future of the country rests on the results of the upcoming presidential election, they must learn from the debacle last time around in 2000 and demand curbs to the troubling new trend of electronic voting. Without a tangible record of the votes?...