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...China emerges as an international power [Jan. 22], the West must be wary of a brain drain. In order to be a manufacturing giant, the Chinese must get all the know-how as well. As capitalist businesses become increasingly focused on earning quarterly profits through low-cost production, they lose sight of the greater long-term value of their intellectual resources and will lose their markets in the end. The Chinese have a reputation for endurance. Alan Benson Berlin...
...Operation Reboot Re "The battle for control of the war" [Jan. 29]: How sad that President George W. Bush's strategy in Iraq is so clearly political rather than military. The surge in troops presents the appearance of action while gambling American and Iraqi lives on the outcome. If stability in Iraq is restored, even short-term, Bush can denounce his naysayers. If the surge fails to effect a long-term change, the conflict will probably last until Bush leaves office - and then he can blame failure on his successor. Bush is a canny politician but no leader. Our troops...
...Joseph Biden has some company - it turns out serious political gaffes aren't just for bumbling American presidential candidates. On Jan. 27 Japan's Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa gave a speech on the country's shrinking population in which he referred to Japanese women of childbearing age as "baby-making machines." He went onto explain that arresting population decline was difficult "because the number of baby-making machines and devices is fixed [in the population]; all we can do is ask them to do their best per head." The 71-year-old Yanagisawa did add, however, "that...
...additional coverage of the presidential search: Woman To Take Lead? (Jan. 8, 2007): In its 370-year history, Harvard has never had a female president. But with several women under serious consideration, many wonder if 2007 will be the year that a woman finally takes the helm. Deft Historian May Be Harvard’s Future (Jan. 12, 2007): The Crimson profiles Drew Gilpin Faust, a renowned historian and dean of the Radcliffe Institute. Cech Bows Out of Harvard Race (Feb. 1, 2007): Thomas R. Cech, the head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a leading contender in Harvard?...
...news of the Prime Minister's questioning is the latest blow to the Labour government. Blair's chief fundraiser and Middle East envoy Lord Levy-who was arrested in July over suspicion of selling honors--was arrested again on Jan. 30, this time on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Both Blair and Levy have denied any wrongdoing. A guide to the inquiry that has all the British classes chattering...