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...Most China analysts, though, expect these difficulties to disappear after the Olympics. "They're having a few jitters, but China isn't going to cut off its nose to spite its face," says Kent Kedl, a consultant at Technomic Asia, a Shanghai-based market strategy firm. Plans are already afoot to give Hong Kong permanent residents of any nationality visa-free access to the mainland within the next few years, the kind of privilege that millions of Asians who work in the West can only dream about. "Getting my Chinese staff to the U.S. is an absolute nightmare," says Kedl...
...workforce's output was diminished by ailments such as headaches and arthritis. What's new in Kruger and Stone's study, however, is the level of detail with which the researchers were able to chronicle the lives of Americans in pain. With the help of the polling firm Gallup, they asked nearly 4,000 survey participants to diarize their daily activities over a 24-hour period. From these personal accounts, the researchers saw the impact pain had on people's emotional states. Though participants said interacting with a spouse or friend lowered their pain, those suffering chronic pain tended...
...Recent data from the Office of International Programs shows an encouraging shift in student attitudes toward study abroad. Students are becoming less reluctant to leave these hallowed grounds, though there is still a firm contingent that disparages courses taken abroad as less rigorous than those at Harvard. But a few months spent even in a less intense academic environment will still present students with at best a valuable intellectual opportunity, and at very least some time to think. Surely, this is a good thing...
Though their regimes may be thuggish, these men are not thugs themselves. They are intellectuals and, as firm believers that their various opponents are merely puppets of the same imperial enemy they have always faced, it is intellectually crucial that they beat their former colonial masters at their own game. Western democracy, as they see it, is hollow. Western governments that were democratically elected at home pursued autocratic colonialism abroad. Even after the end of the age of imperialism, neo-imperialists funneled support to compliant dictators around the world, and relentlessly attempted to fix the rules of the global economy...
...they sally forth to serve their country with pride, Harvard’s ROTC graduates should do so with firm misgivings about the discrimination built into the organization of which they will have become part. Only by doing so can they aspire to overcome the generational divide that stands between the status quo and real equality of citizenship for gay Americans...