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Despite their earlier promises, Chinese officials now repeatedly complain that the Olympics are a sporting event and should not be linked to politics. If you look at the history of the Olympics--from the demonstrators gunned down in Mexico's Tlatelolco Square in 1968 to the boycotts of the 1980s and '90s--that would seem a pretty forlorn hope. Chinese activists, like others before them, have wanted to use the world's attention on their nation to reduce the iron grip that politics and ideology have held over their lives for so long. "The Olympics are about human nature," says...
Republicans complain that their candidates attack each other more often than they attack the Democrats. But the Republican candidates have been bashing Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for months. Last week, Mayor Giuliani made a web ad slamming Senator Clinton’s flip-flop on the Iraq War. On the stump, Gov. Romney warns of the Democrats turning the country to the Left instead of forward. Both candidates have pointed out that of the main three Democratic contenders, Senators Clinton, Obama and John Edwards of North Carolina, who all are vying for the nation?...
...august English university on a doomed West Indian slave. His view does not overlook class or other races - in Foreigners he points out that more than 2,000 Jews fought for Britain in World War I, only to be greeted on their return as aliens. Yet where others complain about history, Phillips sets about remaking it, in more inclusive terms. As befits his theme, this new book is a hybrid, a mix of history, fiction and first-person reportage, its opening section delivered in the 18th century voice of a friend of Johnson's, the closing one in a collection...
...after all, in the age of the involved parent, or the overinvolved parent. The theory of "attachment parenting" espouses sleeping in the same bed with Baby for early bonding. Schools complain of hovering "helicopter parents," a label that some moms and dads wear proudly. The amount of time candidates spend with their young kids is even an issue in the primaries. For the enlightened 21st century mom and dad, quality time has met quantity time. Never mind the bleach: the idea of having kids care for themselves, separate from parents, rings faintly abusive in itself...
...quick to complain about how Harvard draws the strength out of us when the real leech lurks within. It takes a certain level of stubbornness to reject our common compulsion to activity for even the shortest while. But if we were able to muster this up and deny ourselves freneticism in the summer, we might find that its output would be returned to us, interest paid, during the rest of the year...