Word: apre
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Xiaomeng Tong's "Human Rights Hypocrisy" (signed piece, Apr. 5, 1995), raises too many issues for one letter to supply sufficient response. Yet typical of a Beijing party-line invective, albeit a soft-pedaled one, the editorial quietly intends to deflect the international issues at hand between the U.S. and China to matters of "internal affairs," both Chinese and American. Certainly, to point out the U.S.'s inequalities (which we can expect to be exacerbated in the fallout of the Newtonian Congress) is no panacea for China's woeful inability to understand democracy, and Tong's choice to ignore China...
Sackler Museum. Apr. 8, "Body Sights: A Symposium on Vision, the Body, and Video Art" from...
...percent commissions to travel agents, who make 85 percent of U.S. plane reservations. The airlines say they will pay agents just $25 per one-way domestic ticket and $50 per round-trip fare instead. To help make up the losses, Carlson Wagonlit will charge a $15 service fee beginning Apr. 1, and American Express will charge $20 for domestic tickets priced under $300 starting Mar. 6. "Many customers may now refuse to go to agents and pay the fee and instead do the homework themselves," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. Some airlines, he adds, are already encouraging customers...
...hiding for penning "The Satanic Verses," which offended Muslims. Under contest rules, the author of the best short story about Rushdie's "moments of fear and anxiety" will win 10 gold coins. (Second and third place winners get five and three gold coins, respectively.) Entries must be submitted by Apr. 20. It was unclear whether Rushdie himself is eligible...
...Square to the bottom of Coop bags, it seems like everybody everywhere is trying to get college students to sign up for a new credit card. We are being deluged by offers from companies looking to make a quick buck from people who may or may not know that "APR" doesn't stand for April...