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...that tend to be super rich in natural resources tend to be quite poor,” Perkins said. In an interview before the speech, Kynge said that he felt that the U.S. did not know how to adequately respond to China’s growing political influence in central and southeast Asia. “I really get a sense that the White House doesn’t have much of a clue what to do about that,” he said. He also said that trade imbalances with the U.S. would not be easily assuaged...
...Havana Club gives you lessons first, then lets you test your skills at the dance party right after. 8:30-9:30 p.m. Salsa 101 class; 9:30 p.m. Beginner/Intermediate Salsa class; 10:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Salsa Dance Party 21+, $12. The Havana Club, 288 Green Street, Central Square, Cambridge. 3) Now Grab Your Partner and Dosy-Do! Every Thursday in October you can put on your cowboy boots and get in line for some dancin’. Sponsored by the Folk Arts Center of New England (inspiring impromptu line dances since 1975). 7:30-10:30 p.m. Concord...
...stands in the courtyard of her family's house in central Beijing, glancing up as a breeze flutters the leaves of a pomegranate tree. Except for the sounds of playing children in the alley outside, all is silence. "It's hard to believe we are in the center of a city of 15 million, isn't it?" she says. Hers is a traditional, single-story courtyard home in one of the city's ancient hutongs, the lanes that the city's Mongol designers intended as the heart of the metropolis when they planned it in 1272. There were once...
Soweto, a few miles from central Johannesburg, is one of South Africa's most notorious townships--the congested, occasionally chaotic home to millions of the country's poorest citizens. A tour is now practically mandatory for anyone visiting South Africa, to see how much the country has changed and how far it still has to go. Both Jimmy's Face to Face Tours (www.face2face.co.za) and Max Maximum Tours www.backpackafrica.com offer quality guided visits. Nearby is the Apartheid Museum www.apartheidmuseum.org) at which visitors are randomly assigned a racial classification and then enter the raw concrete-and-steel structure through...
...affair with intern Monica Lewinksy won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1999, said the Bush administration has sought to create an “alternate reality” by “spending hundreds of millions on self-aggrandizing propaganda.” And the Fourth Estate has been central to holding the White House in check, she said. “The American public just has a wonderful sense of who they trust and who they don’t,” she said. “Sometimes they can get fooled, but they can judge only...