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...website announcing the end of the yuan's peg to the dollar. Citing its wish to "improve the socialist market economic system in China," the bank set the yuan at 8.11 to the dollar?a 2.1% increase in its value?and decreed that henceforth it would trade within a narrow band of 0.3% each day against a basket of (unnamed) currencies. Now that the yuan is allowed to float, even only slightly, its value should better reflect China's buoyant economic growth and its booming trade with the rest of the world. But the 2.1% shift is so slight that...
Instead, Over There focuses, to borrow Donald Rumsfeld's phrase, on the narrow "soda straw" of the grunts' experience--a fog of war both physical and moral, with the only sure thing the desire to stay alive. The battle scenes may be the most visceral (literally) and gripping that series TV has ever done. As scary as the battle is the uncertainty. In one episode, the unit works at a checkpoint, unsure if they have killed good guys or bad guys even after they search the bullet-shattered cars. The show's power, of course, comes from knowing that these...
...determined to make it happen. I liked my topic: translations of English literary texts into Chinese in Taiwan, their importance in the publishing industry, and their cultural influence. The scope was a bit too broad, typical for someone who tends toward academic sprawl, but I figured I could narrow it down...
...wrinkle my nose and narrow my eyes...
...Clarence Thomas: Appointed by George Bush in 1991, Thomas replaced Thurgood Marshall in the closest confirmation vote in over a century (52-48). Since then, Thomas has earned a reputation as a conservative, in part for his very narrow reading of individual rights under the Constitution. He opposes affirmative action and Roe v. Wade, supports limited power for the Supreme Court and opposes the view that the Constitution is designed "to address all of the ills in our society." Thomas sides most often with Justice Scalia, concurring with the more senior judge almost 90 percent of the time...