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A Different Sort of Empire Re "The World of China Inc." [Dec. 7]: The Chinese are able to secure resources from other lands by using their financial clout - this is far preferable to the traditionally European and eventually American tactic of sending in troops and killing civilians as we have...
I enjoyed reading Joe Klein's article about the new style, tone and attitude of cooperation that the Obama Administration brings. I only wish that Klein had adopted this new attitude. Instead, the snarky remarks aimed at George W. Bush and other conservatives make him come across as a sore...
ONE WORD, TWO MEANINGS. MOMENT AS IN MOMENTARY, AN EVENT OR PASSION that is here, now, quick--then gone. Bush's last press conference, Madoff's comeuppance, a presidential puppy, Tiger's bad lie. Steroid scandals, swine-flu panics, airplane pilots good and bad. Already these fragments have the memorial...
SARAH PALIN gets a book deal; LEVI JOHNSTON gets a pictorial. Next year, the other way around?
This gap in the English language shouldn't come as a surprise; the debate over what to name the first decade of this century has been going on since the middle decades of the last one. The 1900s never got a name beyond vague constructions like the turn of the...