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...Adopting an Olympian perspective, their authors tend to use broad strokes to portray things that actually require a fine-grained touch. For example, most treat China's population as an undifferentiated mass, or one that can be bisected along just one axis: be it the 90% Han and 10% non-Han ethnic divide, the clear ideological fault line between loyalists and dissidents, and so on. And they often buy into the cozy but distorting official myth of "thousands of years of continuous civilization," which suggests that China's borders have remained fairly constant over time and that the "Confucian tradition...
...giving actually grew in 2009. One online charity portal, Network for Good, reported that the number of donations nearly doubled last year, and the dollar value of donations increased by 42 percent. However, trends in online giving, including cutting-edge methods like text-message donations, vary markedly from traditional non-profit donations, and their growing importance will have a significant effect on the quantity and character of charity worldwide, and not necessarily a positive...
...many of the internationals who are attempting to enter the Strip, I can say that some are thrill seekers who want to “go where the action is,” as one put it to me. The Mezan Center for Human Rights, the respected Palestinian non-governmental organization that I was scheduled to work with, expressed reservations about having me in Gaza for exactly this reason. Hardly anyone doubts that people who are going to Gaza because they saw bombs exploding there should be told that the Marines will not rush in to save them when they...
Krugman faulted the Obama administration for declaring a freeze on non-security discretionary spending and making a second stimulus package politically impossible, drawing parallels to former President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision to reduce government funding in 1937, which resulted in another “severe recession...
...decision against Kurt Brendel, but the most encouraging sign for Harvard came in the heavyweight division. Sophomore Spencer DeSena—competing for the first time this month—posted a dominant 7-0 win to earn the Crimson’s only win from a non-captain on the weekend. If the squad hopes to compete more effectively as a team, it will need such performances from less experienced grapplers as it advances through the Ivy slate...