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Beijingers have a reputation in China for aloofness and a dry, self-mocking wit. According to Wang Shuo, China's most famous modern novelist, it's a sense of irony developed over centuries as a way of living with the fallout from the capital's endless factional power struggles. If so, the capital's 17 million residents are getting an excellent opportunity to test their famous detachment this week as Beijing hosts the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. The get-together, held once every five years, sees senior cadres of the 70 million-strong Party gather...
...also decided to wear extremely unflattering suits made out of what seems to be long swathes of cobalt fabric. Despite a judgmental American public that seems to favor women of the Laura Bush ilk (heck, even Hillary is showing cleavage on the presidential trail while also wearing an endless string of peach linen pants suits, the likes of which I have never seen in any store), Janet Reno, the daughter of humorless Dutch immigrants, stuck to her guns and kept on wearing really long jackets with no lapels. You’ve got to admire it. It?...
...what he called the “last throes” of finishing a book, Livesey praised Widener Library’s seemingly endless resources, another reason he came back to Harvard...
...Representatives of 220 academic institutions were among the thousands who converged on campus for Friday’s festivities. They kept warm underneath an endless variety of headwear...
Skeptics, meanwhile, see North Korea's current eagerness for investment as another in Kim's endless series of feints designed to keep his opponents off balance--and the foreign aid handouts flowing so the country stays fed. "The North Korean economic approach has always been to extract resources from outsiders," says Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of The North Korean Economy. "It's like what they say about champagne: In success, you feel like you deserve it. In failure, you need...