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...thrilled that The New York Times wrote an article about it, and that now at the mention of Yale the world might think of pornography in addition to the finest undergraduate education in America...
...scholar - and also, incidentally, a Democrat -was tapped earlier this week to run the administration's office of faith-based programs. Almost all of the articles and TV reports written about DiIulio, who has a perch at both the conservative Manhattan Institute and centrist Brookings Institution, have failed to mention his opposition to the death penalty - something that Bush has applied far more frequently than any politician in recent decades...
Given what Chinese have learned of Tibet for the past half-century, it's hard to believe they would venture near the place. Eighth-grade textbooks omit mention of Buddhism, emphasizing instead that before China's army "peacefully liberated" the province, "it practiced the darkest, most barbaric system of slavery in human history." Films like the 1963 Serfs, seen in childhood by nearly all Chinese, show venal monks digging out people's eyeballs to settle debts and stretching the skin of dead serfs over drum heads. Communist propaganda vilifies exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama as a "splittist" seeking...
...most wanted white-collar fugitives. In 1983, the brilliant, rapacious commodities trader, along with his partner, Pincus Green, was charged with an illegal oil-pricing scheme that amounted to what might be the biggest tax swindle in U.S. history, to the tune of almost $50 million - not to mention trading with Iran during the hostage crisis. The latter charge was later dropped against Rich's company but not against Rich and Green personally. (Not everybody was as lucky as Rich; junk-bond king Michael Milken, who was opposed by the SEC, and convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, who has no fans...
...leadership. Just as he didn't think he was weak when he assumed the supposedly weak office of governor of Texas, he doesn't think he is weak now. He will try to set the agenda with a few legislative programs, as he has with education. And he will mention them every time he speaks. It may well prove to his advantage if everyone on the platform as he was sworn in is underestimating him just as we did in Texas when he first took office...