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...most prominent politicians. On one side is Mikhail Gorbachev, the father of perestroika and glasnost, the brilliant if testy infighter whose policies not only failed to put bread on the table but spurred most of the country's 15 republics to loosen if not actually break the ties that bind them to Moscow. On the other side is Boris Yeltsin, the Lazarus of Soviet politics, the blunt-spoken and somewhat erratic brawler of the streets who seems intent on leading a revolution against the Kremlin...
...assimilation that, while it is still taking place, we no longer have a good metaphor for. We keep denouncing the melting pot, but something of the sort keeps going on,” said Sollors of Lam. Lam detailed his resistance to his mother’s attempts to bind him to his culture by reading letters received from relatives left behind. “What did I do? I skimmed. I skipped. I shrugged,” read Lam, drawing laughter from the audience. The theme of angst also pervaded Lan Tran’s reading, a performed monologue...
...this is a President who won re-election by fomenting political confrontations, and he knows the Democrats are in a bind. They won't block funding for the troops. Only 9% of Americans say they are in favor of cutting off funds for the war, according to an April 13 cbs News poll. Unfortunately for the Democrats, that 9% includes the noisier elements of the party's base. Senator Barack Obama found this out the hard way recently, when he said in an Associated Press interview that perhaps the best course of action was to "keep the President...
...problem. Japan has coped with similar problems in the past to become one of the world's most efficient energy users; its expertise in this field could be of great benefit to China. Expanding the two nations' already robust economic ties-bilateral trade passed $200 billion last year-will bind them further. "Japanese officials realize that China is Japan's economic future," says Jeff Kingston, a professor of history at Temple University in Tokyo. "The mutual interest is real...
...cliché phrase tells us that we have more in common than we think. This is true; however, we cannot truly appreciate the commonalities that bind us together as humans rather than separate us as races without addressing the differences that continue to divide our society. We must embrace our similarities while still having the courage and audacity to confront and learn from our differences...