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...years I have been trying to persuade people that George W. Bush, although no Einstein, is not stupid. Now comes word he is returning to Texas for most of August. He could have gone to Kennebunkport, Maine, instead. I give up. If you put his brain in a duck, it would fly north for the winter...
...Still, it's not something that any country can easily walk away from - not even a Bush administration that has made a habit of being the party pooper in international forums. There's a political cost, too, in being seen to duck a discussion of racism. Instead, the U.S. and some of its European allies are looking to make the menu more palatable. They want to expunge the two most controversial items: discussions of reparations for slavery and colonialism, and of Zionism as racism. Washington has warned that if those topics are still on the agenda come conference time...
Joel went out of town recently, which allowed me to duck into his office and install spying software on his hard drive. You can buy commercial spyware these days, but I used VNC, which can be downloaded free. VNC was designed to help people link their own computers. But it also worked as a cheap and easy way for me to keep tabs on Joel. Soon after loading VNC onto my computer, I was rifling through Joel's hard drive...
With an analogy comparing Chinese and Western approaches to a “wild duck and a chicken,” he concluded that no one should expect the two medical cultures to communicate...
...Anything Washington does to duck the issue of mandatory emission cuts is unlikely to impress the Europeans. Italy's new conservative prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has pushed the European Union to take American proposals more seriously. And that may mean the Europeans are more willing to take another look at proposals floated by the Clinton administration for trading emissions-rights and so on. But the question will be to what extent is Bush willing to back away from his vow that in addressing global warming nothing can be done to harm the U.S. economy. That struck people here as selfish...