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...matter how many times I read predictions of China's bright future, I still worry about my country. As an overseas student whose parents are both laid-off workers because of China's economic reforms, I am not so optimistic. I believe that many people - Chinese people and foreigners - are so shocked by China's extraordinary rise that in some ways they ignore what hides behind the prosperity: the expanding income gap between rich and poor, a worsening environment caused by immoderate industrialization and corruption in the government. There are many acute problems to be solved in modern China...
...With reference to the "stay the course" rhetoric: When attacked for having changed his opinion on a matter, Winston Churchill elegantly replied, "My views are in a harmonious process, which keeps them in relation to the current movement of events." Only fools stick to their ideas after they have been proved wrong. The world awaits evidence that Bush is no fool. Lennart Lordin Karlskrona, Sweden...
...Portland, Ore. police department quietly removed the objects that they considered “harmless.” Apparently, unlike the BPD, Portland police aren’t drawn en masse toward bright shiny lights. (Or to college students having—gasp!—fun, for that matter. But we suppose terrorists, or reckless advertisers, could hide bombs in kegs at the Harvard-Yale tailgate if students weren’t required to wear pink bracelets.) In the aftermath of the fake fake attacks, Jan. 31, 2007 will always be remembered as the most harrowing uneventful...
...employees or that it “should” return some of its profits because it has so much will be fruitless; the only thing that Nike and almost every other for-profit company cares about is its bottom line, and arguing about moral imperatives—no matter how profound—does not affect the bottom line. Nike would fire workers if consumers did not take the hit and pay for laborers’ increased wages...
...surprise by the Palestinian uprising, paralyzed by the dilemma of the territories. Public opinion is splintered between hard-liners who want to keep all the land and those willing to take the chance of giving some of it up for peace. On neither side, in Israel, is the matter as theoretical as it might be elsewhere. Apocalypse is a possibility always. People live with it. They listen to the news almost obsessively. Israelis have traveled a distance from the Leon Uris version of themselves, from the romanticized pioneer days when kibbutzniks drained malarial swamps by day and danced the hora...