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...students and reformists in parliament share the idea that reform should be gradual. "The target of a revolution is usually the collapse of the political system," Jalaipour says. "In this case, we are looking for modification." Student leaders, anxious not to provoke a violent reaction from the Basij, tend to concur. One of them, who was arrested outside Modarres University three weeks ago and detained for 14 hours, thinks sudden changes are undesirable: "We are looking for human rights in accordance with the nature of our society." Life in the Islamic Republic has changed enormously since Khatami came to power...
...Republican leaders and their apologists tend to go into a frenzy of denial when members of the liberal media cabal bring up these inconvenient facts. It's that lack of candor, of course, that presents the biggest obstacle to George W. Bush's commendable and long overdue campaign to persuade more African-Americans to defect from the Democrats to the Republicans. It's doomed to fail until the GOP fesses up its past addiction to race-baiting, and makes a sincere attempt to kick the habit...
Next year, Yamaguchi hopes to be dancing or choreographing either in New York or Tokyo, with graduate school in the near future. His style will be constantly evolving. “Whenever I go to a new environment I tend to pick up new things,” he says. He promises, though, that he’ll never stray too far from his street performer roots and will still pick up an apple, or three, to juggle along...
Whether it’s the French with their language, or the Germans with their blood, Europeans tend to be militant about protecting their “purity” from outside contamination. Most recently, the European Union (E.U.) has become obsessed with the “genetic purity” of its food, refusing to allow the import of genetically modified food from the U.S. or other countries. This policy has not only been the source of an unseemly spat with the U.S., but has also contributed to the starvation of thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa...
...think students tend to travel great distances for things they care about,” he says...