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...more recently, “from Burma too!” the choruses one after another, in perpetual refrain, raise, striking so high a pitch that few politically-sensitive observers withhold their applause. But this tired routine cannot—and should not—remain above reproach. This bleeding-heart activism is not mere well-intentioned, innocuous idealism, but potentially a cause of harm—not, thankfully, to the benighted peoples the campaigners ostensibly seek to help—but to their own society.This self-congratulatory student activism, typified by such officious petition-writing, fosters a pernicious habit...
...governance, we must accept the unavoidable fact that we will always create a class of governing students and one of governed students. And no matter how closely the former reports to the latter, no matter how democratic a process leads to the selection of those classes, they will always remain separated. Such division is inherently incompatible with the academic utopia of the undergraduate body, where utter equality of conditions is an imperative...
...However bad the allegations, this diplomat stresses too many questions remain to be answered before the innocence of the six aid workers and their backers should be doubted. The stakes in an unfair conviction would be far too high, he says: 20 years of hard labor for the Zoe's Ark members, and years of additional difficulty for other NGOs operating in the area...
...Although Kate, also 39, continues to remain at home with their two other children, Gerry told reporters he wanted to "get back a degree of normality with a working routine." He said he felt that he and his wife had done all they could to help find Madeleine, and that an "infrastructure" to continue the search was in place...
...Meanwhile, the investigation in Portugal seems to have stagnated, which means the McCanns could remain in suspect limbo for many months to come. That uncertainty is another factor that, for now, will make it difficult for them to pick up the threads of their old life and go back to their jobs...