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...comparison would drive many Americans to distraction. Guant?namo isn't in the same league as Kim Jong Il's gulag. But it's bad enough, and as Mahbubani points out, it has weakened the moral authority that the U.S. had at the end of the cold war. Alas, his brief chapter on what the U.S. can do about this flirts with the banal ("promote greater respect for international law"). Which means the ultimate message of the book is clear if, for Americans, depressing: in places like Guant?namo, the U.S. frittered away much of the world's trust in a painfully...
...particularly robust, yielding some 80,000 such couplings over the past decade. Chang followed the men to Ho Chi Minh City, where they're shown an array of young women preselected by marriage agencies. If a man chooses one of the girls and she accepts, it's a very brief engagement?the wedding usually takes place within three days. This is matrimony at its most mercantile: sucking in strangers and churning out brides and grooms, complete with photo albums and triple-layered cakes...
...women are presented in small, uncomfortable groups, preparing themselves for the potential humiliation of the selection process. Some appear surprisingly old?more, startlingly young?and almost all avoid the camera's gaze. Once the men have made their picks, the future couples and current strangers pass through immigration and brief counseling. As they absorb lectures on culture shock and communication, no one says a word to each other?no one even looks at each other?but Chang makes their body language easy to read. He captures the physical atmosphere of apprehension and awkwardness generated by two very different people suddenly...
...rising Harvard sophomores applied to three Houses, ranking them in order of preference, and met with the House Master and Senior Tutor for a brief interview prior to selection...
...Critics of the H. floresiensis hypothesis, meanwhile, are working overtime to disprove it. Thorne and a colleague spent three days in February examining the Liang Bua bones in Jakarta on the invitation of Teuku Jacob, Indonesia's most senior anthropologist, who gained possession of the bones for a brief period before handing them back to the Australian-Indonesian team that made the discovery. Thorne and another Australian scientist subsequently wrote a paper flatly rejecting the idea that a new species had been discovered. Jacob, who is among the fiercest critics of the H. floresiensis theory and has been accused...