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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...
...rentals and sales currently enjoy an enormous market. A good business, after all, is adaptive. Yet still the recording industry, perhaps because of the relative effortlessness of digital piracy and near-immunity from the law, feels it deserves special protection. Many pop icons, such as Metallica and Dr. Dre, applaud efforts to preserve record sales as grounded in good principle and in recognition of the blood and sweat of up-and-coming artists. Though we may not be able to articulate opposition to arguments of their tragic monetary loss, many of us just don't buy it. After...
...Those who agreed publicly Wednesday with Friedman's decision were eager to applaud what they called academia's reaching "a point where race is no longer an issue." Friedman's detractors painted a less rosy picture; some predicted his opinion would return American campuses to lily-white canvases of homogeneity...
...Crimson applaud Taco Bell's audacity in making this gamble. One estimate of the potential cost to Taco Bell was $10 million--a figure that seems high until one calculates the resulting cost of ingredients for each of 281 million tacos. But Taco Bell has bought insurance anyway, and at relatively low cost, since the target is 10 miles off the coast of Australia, and Mir is expected to crash more than 1,000 miles off the coast of New Zealand...
...wandering husbands, many city women see no reason not to taste the eye candy at places like PuJ's themselves. In the past five years, female infidelity has contributed to 30% more divorces nationwide, according to a study conducted by the All-China Women's Federation. Many women applaud the change - even though they may not approve of rampant bed-hopping. "Even a decade ago, women didn't have that much power," says Li Yinhe, a sociologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. "But today, they have the money to buy everything, including sex. It's really...