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...ties as a key part of his personal legacy. An 11th-hour flare-up with Washington wouldn't help that effort and could risk backfiring. Says Wu Guoguang, a political-science professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Every time Sino-American relations dip, Jiang ends up looking dumb." So who's stirring the pot? It may be China's hard-liners, particularly in the military and security apparatus, who are more skeptical than Jiang of improved ties with the U.S. Leaking the bugging story on the eve of Bush's visit might have been aimed at keeping Jiang...
...only solution to the Indo-Pak conflict is a return to pre-1947 status. Dividing one nation into two countries was a dumb idea, especially since the basis for doing so was religion. India and Pakistan are intrinsically bound by common history and cultural heritage. A formidable number of Muslims decided to stay in India after the partition, confirming the absurdity of carving out two separate countries. There will be no peace unless the countries unite. VASUDEV PARVANI Vancouver, Canada...
...newfound independence. In Doughty’s opinion, the music industry mass-markets an image of danger that is problematic not so much because it is truly dangerous, but because it is in fact absolutely tame. When he calls “wanting to break stuff...a dumb way to interpret an emotional response to music,” he by no means intends this as a condemnation of bands like Nirvana, AC/DC or the Ramones. Instead, he argues convincingly that fans’ so-called “danger response” is an illusion, “another...
...competition and did not attend his induction to the Country Music Hall of Fame last year. He kept on making music, however, recording and touring with Nelson, Cash and Kris Kristofferson as the Highwaymen in the mid-80's, putting out more albums with ornery titles - 1992's "Too Dumb for New York, Too Ugly for L.A.," for one - and even playing a few dates on the 1996 Lollapalooza tour headlined by Metallica...
...feel like if you want to reach a wider audience, you have to dumb it down,” Pakulski says. “What I like about MediaUnbound, though, is that they try to make people a little better informed than just the most popular thing. But I’m too jaded to believe it can really change anything...