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...massive investments in their currencies and bonds. Capitalizing on this grace period, China has shored up its ties to repressive states such as Iran by signing a $3 billion natural-gas deal, challenged American ships off the coast of China and cracked down hard in Tibet for the 50th anniversary of the 1959 uprising. Yet Beijing has largely avoided high-level censure. In Washington, the State Department released a statement on the repression in Tibet in the name of a spokesman, rather than in the name of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, thereby making the message far less consequential...
...because of baseball. It wasn't part of any regular tradition as it is these days, but it struck a sentimental chord with baseball fans, reminding them of the glory and heroism of legendary players like Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Jackie Robinson. In 1958, on the song's 50th anniversary, MLB gave Norworth - who had finally attended his first game in 1940 - a gold lifetime ball park pass...
...Even today, Tibetans in Tibet live in constant fear.' THE DALAI LAMA, marking the 50th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising...
...Formula One teams racing to cut costs amid the economic downturn, Xtrac is selling fewer gearbox parts this year. Cushioned by its interests outside Formula One, Xtrac's future is hardly threatened, but, says technical director Adrian Moore, "any reduction in business makes you concerned."(See pictures of the 50th running of the Daytona...
...Subtle racism is particularly pervasive in the American media; the reporting on Chinese affairs in the New York Times, for instance, is not so different in spirit from the comments left on the Lowell walls. Take for example, a recent New York Times article on the “50th Anniversary of Democratic Reforms in Tibet,” which has a headline reading, “Tibet Atrocities Dot Official Chinese History.” The first line of the article succinctly sums up hundreds of years of history with one line of anti-Chinese rhetoric...