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...exports, but Bush condemned it for selling a communications cable to Iraq. In January, China adopted a less threatening policy toward Taiwan; Bush still might sell Aegis air-defense radar to the island. If he does, "relations with the U.S. could worsen permanently, and Jiang will lose the greatest pillar of his legitimacy," says an Asian diplomat in Beijing. Last month China dispatched foreign policy mandarin Qian Qichen to Washington to patch up relations; Bush chose to receive Japan's doomed Prime Minister first, underscoring Tokyo's privileged position. "I'm frustrated," says a Chinese foreign policy adviser criticized...
...back, because she likes his clean-cut look. Fifi doesn't go for hulky men, because she feels like she might get crushed. She doesn't like Western men, because they're a little too hairy. What Fifi likes is slouched right in front of her, leaning against a pillar, watching her body slide around the dance floor...
...game is at its most frenzied at Babylon. The man by the pillar smiles hesitantly at Fifi. She grins back, pops a mint and slinks on over. They mouth words to each other, not that they can really hear over the techno din. He says he works for a financial company. She says she owns stocks. Pretty soon he's got his hand on the small of her back and is drawing her closer. When he reaches over and nuzzles her neck, she closes her eyes and leans her head back. But only for a moment. Soon, she opens...
...step backwards," said Maryam Gholabi, 21, a medical student. More revealing than any of the student speeches or placards was the absence of photos of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the late Ayatollah Khomeini, whose pictures adorn every public space in Iran. That day at Tehran University, the pillar on which Khamenei's photo normally hangs was bare...
...others means of evaluation. If grade inflation really made of mockery of Harvard diplomas, the employers would not come at all. No matter how one feels about grade inflation, care should be taken to reasonably frame the debate, and not mire an important discussion about our respectable pillar of higher education with rhetorical over-enthusiasm...