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Karen E. Avery '87, assistant dean of the College and director of the Trust, says she is surprised at the delay in the guide's completion...
...trial, ordered that the gunner be handed over to them. Though the foreigners trading there protested, pointing out that this was clearly an accidental homicide, they were forced to give in by the Chinese imposition of a total trade boycott and an impressive show of force. After a long delay while instructions were sought and eventually received from Beijing, the gunner was executed by strangulation. Trade resumed, but the cost was high: as one foreign merchant wrote, the choice they faced had been a grim one. They were forced to regain Chinese favor either by "a submission that must...
...empirical evidence, but from his loyalty to the mining industry. If forced to reduce the amount of arsenic pollution it produces, the industry would stand to lose millions of dollars; it lobbied hard to get the policy overturned and has succeeded in temporarily preserving the antiquated standards. But delay on this issue is unacceptable: every day that Bush prioritizes the mining industry’s bottom line over the nation’s welfare, more Americans will be exposed to carcinogenic drinking water...
...point in adding "without further tampering," now that satellite images reportedly show Chinese officials all over it, tinkering with wrenches and the like.) Bush hasn't set any deadlines, although he and his administration are trying to signal to Beijing that U.S. patience is running out and that further delay may seriously damage U.S.-China relations. "We have allowed the Chinese government to do the right thing," he said. "But now it is time for our servicemen and women to return home and it is time for the Chinese government to return our plane...
...problem, and deal with it. The problem here is that they think we did something wrong, and we think we didn't. There's a disagreement about what happened in the air. So let's figure it out. Some people even suspect some of the reason for the Chinese delay is that the when the incident is investigated it will make their pilots look...