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...senior State Department official chose to pretend that it was, hoping to endow this minor action with some real, if dubious, importance in helping satisfy U.S. demands for "significant progress" in China's human-rights record. His reaction was one of a number of clues that President Clinton has decided against cracking down hard on China by cutting back trade. Another sign was a secret visit to Beijing by a special envoy, former Ambassador to Japan Michael Armacost; his job reportedly was to coax the Chinese leaders into other concessions that the White House could seize on to justify that...
...much as conservatives deem themselves the "victims" at Harvard already I've received an angry response to a minor point made in my letter regarding David Lat's editorial, "Bleed On, Liberals" ("Lat's Lack of Substance Typifies Conservatives More than Liberals," opinion...
...didn't come as a shock when I found out that I wasn't speaking at this year's Commencement. There were two minor barriers standing in my way: I didn't apply and I'm a sophomore...
Second, tolerance breeds apathy. Normally the things we tolerate are fairly unimportant but persistent annoyances. But many of the ideas debated in national political discourse are far from trivial. A parade of skin-heads marching down Main Street is not a minor nuisance to be tolerated but a display of hate that Americans must been unacceptable...
After the disastrous weekend, the FIA board of directors met in emergency session, but the only decision it made was one designed to improve safety in the pits -- a reaction to a relatively minor mishap in which a wheel flew off a car and hurtled into the Ferrari pit, injuring three mechanics. The federation also announced that it would study the possibility of installing speed controls on Formula One cars, and that it would consider requiring the installation of air bags to prevent the kind of head injuries that apparently killed Ratzenberger and Senna. After the race, Italian officials launched...