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...rule of thumb is to default to a handshake if there is any doubt. You might want to take this advice with a grain of salt, though—my ex-girlfriend broke up with me because I shook her hand every time...
...uprising or merely a change of government; a rejection of communism, or an attempt to give it a human face? Erich Lessing, whose remarkable photographs taken for Life magazine laid bare the drama, daring and horror of those autumn days 50 years ago, has no doubt what he saw. "This was not just a little uprising, like in Poland or in East Germany in 1953," he said last week, "this was a real revolution. There was no consultation; it just jumped up here and there." Despairing at the brutality of a particularly nasty communist regime, ordinary citizens in Budapest - students...
...China really intends to exert pressure on Pyongyang, Dandong will be the place where the hammer will drop. But there's reason to doubt China's readiness to take further steps toward squeezing North Korea. One reason is self-interest. Trade with the North is vital to border cities like Dandong, which has registered double-digit growth in recent years, according to local government statistics. Much of that is due to its trade with North Korea, which has more than quadrupled since 1999. Others have benefited from doing business with the North: energy and fuels constitute the bulk of China...
Markets will not, however, be sufficiently covered by the other areas of inquiry and experience that the Task Force has identified. Given their ubiquity, markets will no doubt rear their heads in a course in “The Ethical Life” or “The United States and the World.” But merely touching on the moral implications of the economy or a given country’s economic institutions does not give students a full understanding of the reach, influences, successes, and failures of markets nor does it help students understand how they operate...
That singular Roman dialect known as Vaticanese can sometimes turn so vague as to be incomprehensible. But on Friday, when French Cardinal Paul Poupard presented the Vatican's annual message for the end of Ramadan, there was no doubt about what was meant by the "particular circumstances" that had heightened interest in what is usually a boilerplate goodwill missive. Five weeks since Pope Benedict XVI's speech in Germany about faith, reason and violence provoked a backlash among some Muslims, the wheels of Vatican diplomacy are still working overtime to "placate the souls," as Benedict himself...