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Learning to navigate Beijing's frenzied roads, new drivers are often advised that if they don't want to crash, they shouldn't use their rearview mirror. If everyone else is watching the road ahead, the logic goes, then not only is it pointless to focus on what's behind you, it's also dangerous. In the 15 years since their bloody suppression of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, China's leaders have worked hard to ensure that their people think about politics in much the same way as Beijingers drive. Memories of the massacre, which Beijing euphemistically refers...
...teenager in the 1950s, Louisa Solano learned to tell time backwards at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop. She read a clock reflected in the mirror of a barber shop across the street...
...have devoted 20 years of my life to serving my country. I was very proud of that until I heard about Tillman. Now I look at myself in the mirror and ask, Do I measure up? Would I have given up $3.6 million? I pray that I am half the man Tillman was. I intend to use him as a model of honor, courage and commitment whenever I counsel the young sailors on my submarine, the U.S.S. Springfield. I hope Tillman's family takes some comfort in the fact that he exemplified the spirit of service and sacrifice...
Tabloid Tumble Piers Morgan, the flamboyant editor of the U.K.'s Daily Mirror, has survived many a scrape during his tabloid career, but the photographs he published two weeks ago purporting to show British soldiers brutally mistreating an Iraqi prisoner in the back of a truck proved Morgan's undoing. Last week the Mirror's publisher conceded the pictures were fake (the paper claims to have been the victim of a hoax), apologized unreservedly to readers and the military, and fired the editor. Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram told Parliament the pictures were "categorically not taken in Iraq"; the military...
...African-Americans cannot wait for others to solve the problems of educating black children. They have the political potential to solve some of the problems themselves by heeding the self-help adage: “The solution is not always out the window, it is sometimes in the mirror...