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...played tennis and lost. George was tired, and I played lousy.'' So wrote former U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush in his diary on June 4, 1975. The George who was tired that day was Bush's son and current President George W. Bush - jet-lagged, no doubt, because the court they played on was in Beijing. "Bush 43" was then fresh out of Harvard Business School, and "Bush 41" was chief of the first U.S. Liaison Office in China's capital - the de facto embassy just before Beijing and Washington re-established full diplomatic relations...
...Iyer makes a common mistake in assuming that the Chinese government gives a whit about the world's opinion. It doesn't. The Olympics is a huge public-relations exercise for domestic consumption. The majority of Chinese will see on TV only happy, smiling, competitors (with no doubt a huge proportion of Chinese winners) and none of the debate regarding freedom or human right. The poor and disenfranchised will not benefit from the Games; on the contrary, many have suffered directly because of the ill-considered decision to hand the Olympics to China. Karen Ho, Coolum, Queensland...
...July 29 forced the government to go public with its case against him before it was ready. The evidence the government released was compelling. But the science behind much of the narrative remains a mystery. If the goal is to prove that Ivins was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, the conversation has only just begun...
...hard to figure out why the Bourse is pouting. Revenues rose 21% to $98 million in the first half of 2008, though high marketing costs cut operating margins to 7%. "They're just not getting the benefit of the doubt, and they should," says Trion Reid, who follows Meetic for brokerage firm Jefferies International...
While details of the incident remain vague it will be hard to assess the exact significance of this attack, Bequelin says, but there's no doubt that it represents a resurgence of militant activity in Xinjiang, which could have troubling implications for the future. "The critical thing we need to know is if these were militants who received training or other help from abroad," he says. "The concern is that China could get drawn into the battle with global jihad...