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Bush's handling of the spy-plane incident gets a grudging pass from most Blues, who would prefer more assertive actions but applaud the contrast to the previous Administration. "By this point Bill Clinton would have apologized three times to the world," says the Blue Team's Richard Fisher, a China expert at the Jamestown Foundation. While the Blues are encouraged by the new rightward tilt in Washington, they know the pro-engagement policymakers still hold sway. Timperlake vows that "history will put us in the mainstream." China makes the same prediction...
...hour, and sweatshirt-clad women with babies strapped to their chests. There were women who'd brought sheepish-looking boyfriends and women who'd arrived with their mothers. It was, I decided, a pretty impressive display of sisterhood. And everybody there was waiting, unashamed, to meet and applaud Bridget Jones's creator...
...School could continue to take ethnicity into account in its admissions decisions, since doing otherwise would be an unacceptable disruption to this year’s admissions process. Indeed, the school’s admissions office had been prohibited from mailing its acceptance letters to its incoming class. We applaud the recent stay but realize that the Michigan policy will face further challenges once this year’s letters are mailed...
...know you’ve already said you want to expand the Faculty, and I applaud you for that. But that means getting various departments to actually hire people. I don’t know—maybe you have experience herding cats and can pull it off. Still, it’s like Henry Kissinger ’50 said: “University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small...
...Herald's decision to publish the ad seized all 4,000 copies of the paper. At the University of California, Berkeley, a forum on reparations degenerated into a shouting match after Horowitz delivered a characteristically pugnacious speech. But once they have finished railing at Horowitz, reparations supporters ought to applaud him. The fuss he started is just the kind of highly visible wrangling they need to prove that reparations is an issue worth fighting about, not a pipe dream. If an archconservative like Horowitz is so down on the idea, it must have merit...