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...Lama's presence? Simply that it "resolutely opposes this." Beijing canceled or downgraded some bilateral events, but these were not deal breakers. For Beijing, which has fired missiles toward Taiwan in the past, the action was akin to throwing a snowball. In fact, on the Dalai Lama's first full day in Taiwan, the two sides, once the most implacable of foes, inaugurated direct regular flights - the first since the Chinese civil war ended 60 years ago. New history cannot be denied. (See pictures of Taiwan's typhoon terror...
...government borrowing crowded out private investment and investors demanded higher interest rates on Treasuries to compensate for our country's shakier finances. But during the Reagan presidency, deficits stayed above 4% of GDP for five straight years - and interest rates fell, and the economy boomed. (Hence Cheney's full statement to O'Neill: "Reagan proved deficits don't matter...
...Having taken direct action, Israel apparently used diplomacy more to handle fallout from its actions. Though the Israeli government announced and then maintained in the face of doubting by its press that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had spent a full day incommunicado last week because he was visiting a secret Israeli base, it has since admitted Netanyahu leased a private jet from an Israeli citizen and flew to Russia for the day, where he spoke in secret...
...soil around the recent excavation [for the water main] probably isn’t as compact as the surrounding soil.” Despite the leak, the House’s Field Day celebrations and opening convocations continued in the Quincy courtyard. Housemaster Deborah J. Gehrke, in full academic regalia, flourished the Quincy cane and admonished the gas leak that had threatened the ceremonies. “I expunge this gas leak from Quincy.” —Staff writer Elias J. Groll can be reached at egroll@fas.harvard.edu...
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