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...controversy, all the brusqueness, all the je ne sais quoi that made Summers offensive, for all the faults that Summers brought with him to Mass. Hall, Summers also brought a vision. More than that, he brought the ability to articulate that vision and the willingness to struggle passionately...
...different ways.” “I would like to see even more people who are actively engaged in electoral politics and active in the political arena,” said Ellwood. Boisclair announced his candidacy on his French-language blog last summer, writing, “Je serai candidat!” “I have butterflies in my stomach....This is an important decision for my future...the future of the party, that of sovereignty, and of course, for the future of Quebec,” he wrote. While some observers have noted Boisclair?...
...Kincaid. Iweala, a Nigerian-American whose mother is the Nigerian finance minister, has worked with Nigerian child-soldiers in rehabilitation. He gives no illusory messages of hope. On the contrary, all hope is extirpated in the epigraph, in which Rimbaud’s forlorn words resound: “je parvins à faire s’évanouir dans mon esprit toute l’esperance humaine” (“I managed to make all human hope disappear from my mind”). Yet the act of telling Agu’s story must...
When Korean university student Chang Je Hyung did a brief stint at Samsung's office in Berlin last year, it made him angry. He had to help prepare a holiday trip to Germany for chairman Lee Kun Hee and his family. According to Chang, dozens of Samsung employees spent two months sweating over details of the private visit, even going to fancy restaurants to try out food the chairman might eat. Instead of tipping off the mainstream media, Chang sent a first-person account to online newspaper OhmyNews earlier this year. It created a sensation...
...JE: There were some things in the Patriot Act that were good. Some of the information training provisions, the updating of laws to account for today’s technology. Those are good things. But the provisions like going to libraries and bookstores and finding out what people are buying and checking out without adequate safeguards—that’s what needs to be changed. The sneak-and-peek searches are troublesome because of a lack of adequate due process. There are things that need to be changed. It shouldn’t just be renewed...