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...state-produced TV mini-series premiering in October will present the Dutch as scheming to divide China. In fact, they were ensconced in Indonesia, "with no plans for a big presence in Taiwan," says Philip Kuhn, a Harvard historian. "They held out for a while and then said the hell with it." That's a piece of history unlikely to be portrayed on film. Beijing even plans to promote the film abroad. "We must let foreigners know that China's hero is not inferior to 007," declares Wang Gengnian, vice director of China's Film Bureau...
...standard eradication mission--dozens are flown every year--includes more than $100 million of American gear orbiting over hell and trying to make a difference. So far, the missions have had little impact on overall production. "People want it to be Desert Storm," says Bernard Aronson, the senior State Department official for Latin America during the first Bush Administration. "It's not. It is a long war of attrition. There is progress over time. We just need the political will to sustain the fight." And to swallow the hard realities of a slow war: a recent State Department report notes...
Which makes it all the more difficult for scientists to accept the loss of the CRC. The center's budget this year was $5.2 million--about the price of a single panda. "Scientists are wondering what the hell is going on," says the CRC's Chris Wemmer. At a rancorous meeting at the National Museum of Natural History last month, somebody shouted at Small, "What do you know about science? You're a banker...
...became more Catholic in my tastes, or before I learned to recognize that musical taste is only a small part of what makes a person. For the Reformation, when Kurt Cobain, my own (private?) Martin Luther, nailed his lyrics to the door and changed what I thought about music (hell, before that, I owned both Wilson Phillips albums), not the Counter-Reformation that restored orthodoxy and maturity. It was simpler then. Before Trent and all that. Before I became Pollyanna. I know a lot of it may be just pose, but I walk by the Pit kids...
...reportedly told her minions that Summers is “very ugly and remarkably inarticulate.” But don’t count on Summers to feel injured by Offner’s fighting words. He may lack aesthetic charm or conversational cunning, but he sure as hell won’t let his office be occupied...