Experiments with truth: 5/23/11

    • Egyptian Christians in Cairo ended a two-week long sit-in protesting sectarian violence after the country’s military leaders promised to meet some of the protesters’ demands.
    • Thousands of demonstrators gathered for the second consecutive day at a bridge near Pakistan’s Karachi port for a sit-in to protest U.S. drone strikes.

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    Gal Beckerman’s new book “How to Be a Dissident” finds that dissidence isn’t a personality type. It’s a human capacity that can be cultivated.