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Rather than treating China as a threat, Overholt said that the United States should strengthen its ties with China and release its Cold War attitudes...
...John Updike ’54, and Joyce Carol Oates are considered for the prize. But a comment made on Tuesday by a senior member of the Swedish Academy—the body that bestows the Nobel Prize—that American literature is too self-absorbed might throw cold water on the hopes that an American author will bring home the prize. In an interview with the Associated Press, Horace Engdahl called the United States “too isolated, too insular.” “They don’t translate enough and don?...
...bringing McCain in to help, the House GOP leaders may have done more damage to their members' electoral chances. When McCain gets a cold - Obama now holds his widest leads yet in many polls - his coattails get pneumonia. After trailing Democrats in generic matchups for most of the year, early last month Republicans started to catch up, coming within 3 percentage points of the Democrats in a CNN/Opinion Research poll. The latest poll, however, done Sept. 19-22 - after Paulson's emergency request but before the failed vote - shows the Democrats have widened that lead to 14 percentage points...
...Piracy declined in subsequent centuries, thanks to increasingly vigilant militaries and the development of the steam engine. But amid a drop in naval patrols and a boom in international trade following the end of the Cold War, it has flourished anew - particularly in narrow choke points such as Asia's Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Aden, which links the Red and Arabian seas. Buoyed by fast boats, fearsome weaponry and high-tech communications gear, pirates carried off 263 reported heists in 2007 - 28% of which occurred in the treacherous waters off Nigeria and Somalia, where vast coastlines...
...beautiful weekend wasn’t it?Cambridge gave us all the best parts of autumn: the freezing cold rain, muddy tracks, continual cloud cover. It just felt so unbelievably horrible to be outside. Yay!Thank goodness for football. Man, without that old pigskin on the old telly, I would have been so bummed. Like, imagine the waves swelling really high, but you just broke your board yesterday on some crunchy rocks. Bro, that bummed.But last weekend was different. Maybe it was the weather, or maybe it was the debate hangover, but Saturday was ugly. The top-25 saw upsets...