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...from any given person. But the thing about irony is that it has a time limit. Years ago, I started ironically using the phrase “totes” as a form of assent. Now I hurl “totes” everywhere, even at people who ask me if I want whipped cream on my lattes. “I didn’t used to actually say ‘totes,’” I apologize, ruefully. The barista nods. “I didn’t used to call people Dudemeisters...
...this play is ‘How do you know who anyone else is anymore?—yourself included,’” Stone says in between runs of one of the play’s numerous multilingual vignettes. “I think it asks us to consider a world where terrorism, genocide, and abuse and all these things are sort of the norm and then ask ourselves how we can go on living in this world and why we don’t give these things more thought...
...check in and check out. Little did I know that I was listed under “alcohol-related injuries” and so was going to have to stay until the daytime physician reported for duty. When I left the room they had placed me in to ask what time I could expect to be released (I had planned to work on my thesis prospectus), I got no comprehensible answer to my question...
...hegemony. It remains, relatively speaking, a poor, developing country with huge problems to confront, massive corruption and environmental degradation being Nos. 1 and 1a. Still, this is a moment of humility for the U.S., and China is doing some important things right. If the U.S. were to ask the Chinese what it could learn from their example, it might gain some insight into what it's doing right and wrong. Here are five lessons from China's success story...
...Hubei province from 1994 to 2006. (The value of checks and balances is, in fact, among the many things China could learn from the U.S.) But you don't have to be a card-carrying communist to wonder how effectively the U.S. develops and executes ambitious projects. Ask James McGregor. He's a former chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China and now a business consultant who divides his time between the two countries. "One key thing we can learn from China is setting goals, making plans and focusing on moving the country ahead as a nation...