Word: mets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Some foreign activists believe a boycott will gain support among Chinese liberals, and a few Chinese rights activists such as lawyer Gao Zhisheng agree. But most average Chinese, whatever their anger at Beijing's repression, eagerly await the Olympics. Across China, nearly everyone I have met is proud of the Beijing Games, and a boycott will only turn them against the West. Without a doubt, China's state-controlled press would play up this angle, using a boycott to demonize Western nations and to fuel Chinese nationalism, the country's most potent, and dangerous, political force. In January, the People...
...flurry of speculation, false sightings, books and conspiracy theories - that a Japanese submarine was involved; that the Australian government staged a cover-up. In 2001, five Western Australian volunteers formed the Finding Sydney Foundation and began gathering evidence and government support for another search. In 2003, chairman Ted Graham met with David Mearns, the well-known American shipwreck hunter. Says Graham: "I just had the view that unless our generation found HMAS Sydney, and in particular found it while the widows were still alive, it would potentially be forgotten...
...Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. "Over the years," Pico says, "I've been struck by how practically he's adapted his message to the times and the worldwide audience. He's thought about his positions more deeply and more rigorously than anyone I've ever met...
...Challenging ChinaYet even as the Dalai Lama has managed to make all these breakthroughs in the exile world, in Tibet itself he has made little visible progress over the past 50 years. Every Tibetan I've met remains immovably devoted to him. And yet, as he said to me 12 years ago, "in spite of my open approach of maximum concessions, the Chinese position becomes even harder and harder." The violence that broke out recently was a harrowing reminder of the fact that 98% of Tibetans have no access to their leader and are denied the most basic of freedoms...
...Everyone I met in Beirut confirmed that Hizballah is locked and loaded for the next war. They didn't need any additional proof, but when the USS Cole showed up off the coast of Lebanon it was all the more proof that the United States and Israel were coming to get them...