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...North South summit, where the two sides worked to try to bury a hatchet that's now more than 50 years old. But then tensions with the U.S. over the nuclear issue blunted any forward momentum and a scandal later revealed the summit to have been very much a sham. Will this meeting, scheduled for Aug. 28-30 in Pyongyang, be any different...
...those who are underneath him.” When it comes to campus issues, the ideological divide is even starker. The March 12 edition of the fortnightly paper provides an account of why Harvard should ignore the genocide in Sudan, dubbing the campus divestment efforts a “sham.” Despite The Salient’s claim, conservatives do care about the killing in Sudan; in fact, the Harvard Republican Club has been a supporter and signatory to the Sudan Divestment initiative since last year.On a pragmatic level, however, The Salient has digressed into a status...
Every year, some 3,000 delegates from every corner of China converge on Beijing for a two-week meeting of the National People's Congress, the country's legislature. The meeting is largely a sham: Although the delegates are "elected," candidates have to be approved by the ruling Communist Party, meaning that despite the occasional hiccup, the NPC passes laws required by the Party leadership. Still, although it's an exercise in pretend democracy - or maybe precisely because it is that - China's government marks the occasion with considerable pomp and ceremony, scores of scarlet banners rippling in the breeze...
...black or any other minority and voting Le Pen," argues Smahi, who joined the party a decade ago after having initially backed leftist causes and marching for immigrant rights. "French minorities and banlieue [housing project] residents see they've been manipulated and exploited by both the hypocritical left and sham right for years now. Nothing has changed except the racism. So this time around, expect a lot of people to be casting votes for Le Pen in the hopes that, at last, things may change...
Overt homophobia--including the Los Angeles Dodgers' alleged effort to push him into a sham marriage--made Burke, who some say created the high five, quit baseball in 1980. In '82 he became the first big leaguer to come out, but cocaine led to prison and homelessness. He died in 1995 from AIDS complications...