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Now I know what you’re thinking: “I talk to myself sometimes! I, too, hit my face on occasion while eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! Pretzels are delicious! How can I be sure that I won’t be mistaken for a creeper...
...delegates from every corner of China converge on Beijing for a two-week meeting of the National People's Congress, the country's legislature. The meeting is largely a sham: Although the delegates are "elected," candidates have to be approved by the ruling Communist Party, meaning that despite the occasional hiccup, the NPC passes laws required by the Party leadership. Still, although it's an exercise in pretend democracy - or maybe precisely because it is that - China's government marks the occasion with considerable pomp and ceremony, scores of scarlet banners rippling in the breeze over Tiananmen Square, along with...
Hughes: I was in a literary course, a little weekend course or something, and the girl in the room I was sharing was reading The Bell Jar. Normally when people would say, "are you related to Sylvia Plath Hughes?" I'd go, "well, I can't imagine why you'd...
New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg denounced the party gridlock in the federal government, speaking at the Kennedy School of Government last Friday after accepting the Pathfinder Award for public leadership. Bloomberg said that Washington is “dysfunctional” and too preoccupied with ?...
Then, yesterday in Beijing, China took the occasion of a visit from the U.S. State Department's new point man for Sino-U.S. relations - just confirmed Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte - to reveal that its defense spending in the forthcoming year would rise by nearly 18%, to almost...