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...issues that the U.S. delegation had come to discuss are not all figments of uninformed American imaginations. For a start, those pirated DVDs of first-run Hollywood movies available for 75 cents on the streets of Shanghai are all too real-despite repeated pledges from the Chinese government to crack down on rampant intellectual-property theft. And China's trade surplus, which rocketed to $177.5 billion in 2006 and has risen from less than 2% of its total economy to around 7% in five years-surely Beijing has something to do with that. But instead of substance, the Americans...
...hunger awareness, with plenty of classy cocktails and tasty treats waiting off the ice. Thursday, Jan. 18 from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. The Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St. $75 2)Guilt-free Procrastination Take a break from boring textbook reading to listen to award-winning author Vikram Chandra discuss his latest creation, “Sacred Games.” Chandra, who is being hosted by The Harvard Bookstore, will be reading selections from his highly anticipated novel at the Brattle Theater, providing the perfect mode of acceptable procrastination as you finish up studying for finals. Thursday...
...hopes to have a conversation with Bok about forming a group where women discuss difficulties with the tenure process...
...Pentagon officials would not discuss exactly how many troops Eikenberry wants to add to the 18,000 U.S. troops already in Afghanistan, but estimates are that it could be several thousand. "There will be no decrease in U.S. forces and they could go higher," said Eikenberry. When asked by a reporter today if the U.S. military was too strained by Iraq and other commitments to send more troops to Afghanistan, Gen Peter Pace acknowledged that "any kind of deployment is going to add a short-term strain." But he said that a short-term increase in troops could actually mean...
...globalization has brought cultural influences from abroad, which have begun to change India's own habits: satellite television, which carries soap operas with far racier storylines than the average Bollywood flick; Indian versions of Western magazines such as Marie Claire and Cosmo, which discuss sex in detail only slightly less graphic than do their sister publications abroad; even the growth of cafes, which have become the dating spot of choice for many young urban couples looking for a quiet place to sit and chat. "There has been more social change in the past 10 years than in the last...