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...growing numbers of tourists, scholars, journalists, businesspeople and even senior officials crossing the Strait in both directions have enabled China to better understand what makes Taiwan tick. Now Beijing's strategy is more nuanced. That's partly tactical: the hard-line approach was driving people to the DPP. But it's also an effort to win Taiwan hearts and minds and to show that China, too, is more complex than a caricature of a totalitarian state...
...Strait of Taiwan was long one of the world's flash points, with the potential to draw even the U.S. into conflict. It's hard to predict the future China and Taiwan have with each other, but it's easy to imagine, given all the progress that has occurred, that war is no longer a possibility. That's something to be thankful for - and something truly deserving of a Dalai Lama's blessing...
...closely attuned to the era's zeitgeist was Lukins that it's hard to say now whether she created the decade's culinary trends or merely reflected them. But her essential message remains relevant in today's foodie culture. In the second Silver Palate cookbook, she summarized it near a recipe for hollandaise: "Trust your own good taste in the kitchen...
Still, people tend to regard gender as a straightforward affair, and South Africa is a particularly hard place to be the "other." Apartheid's legacy has been an aggressive racial division that segregates ethnicities into plush suburbs and ghettos. The manner in which South Africa defended Semenya only underlines how obsessed with difference the country remains. When Semenya returned from Berlin, she was met by the leader of the ruling African National Congress Youth League, Julius Malema, who proclaimed the issue was not gender but race: Semenya was a victim of white officials, white media and unpatriotic white South Africans...
...40th-floor studio above the MTV offices in Times Square, the Beatles were together again, playing '60s hits like "A Hard Day's Night" and "Day Tripper." It wasn't exactly that final rooftop 1969 gig at the Apple studios in London, and these weren't the original moptops. They were us - three generations of Beatles fans - sitting in for you and getting to be them...