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...site has been so successful that Goldmann and co-founder Alan Cutter have replicated the service for non-Orthodox Jews and hope to do the same for Mormons as well as South Asian expats. The duo has even been approached by alumni associations looking for novel ways to foster romance after graduation (and to spur fundraising while they...
...critics of Beijing during the Olympic torch run touched off a nationalist storm in China. That sentiment cooled some after the May 12 Sichuan earthquake, when patriotic ardor was directed at helping the millions left homeless. But demonstrations during the Games could reignite it, says Victor Cha, director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University and author of the forthcoming book Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia. "Protests by foreigners would infuriate the Chinese and only fuel their reactive nationalist view that the West is trying to ruin China's moment in the sun," he says...
...terrorists. Why not focus on some good news? In the February elections, Pakistanis totally rejected religious extremism, voting instead for democracy and the rule of law. Pakistan's economy is hardly the only one in the world faced with rising food prices and unemployment. Nor is it the only Asian nation where radicalism, terrorism and extremism are rife. The extremists in Pakistan are a minority in a small area. Pakistan is not a failing state and never will be. Pakistan has paid a high price for being a friend of the U.S. in an increasingly anti-American world. Printing negative...
...James' single-minded determination to bring back the gold medal in basketball are so compelling, yet so different, that we decided to do two TIME covers to show the breadth of our Olympic preview, which begins on page 44. And as evidence of our global reach, TIME's Asian-edition cover features Chinese athlete Liu Xiang, who four years ago became China's first male ever to win track-and-field gold and now is a vessel of 1.3 billion Chinese people's hopes. The three are joined by 97 other athletes, including some familiar names like Michael Phelps...
...point: should Libya definitely halt its oil delivery, Switzerland's supply will not suffer, and the price per gallon will not increase. Hartl says the country has sufficient reserves to last four and a half months - "enough time to find other sources, such as African and central Asian countries." Meanwhile, a hastily arranged Swiss delegation headed by Foreign Affairs Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey was dispatched to Tripoli yesterday to keep the crisis from escalating further. Given the ire in Libya, that might be one of the toughest tests of diplomacy the normally unctuous Swiss have ever faced...