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...meticulously scripted itinerary calls for Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to play host as Hu strolls through Yokohama's Chinatown, visits temples in Nara and dines at the Imperial Palace. On May 8 at Waseda University in Tokyo, Fukuda's alma mater, the two leaders are scheduled to play Ping-Pong...
...broke down into three separate categories: breakfast, lunch, and dinner (with snack time and wine tasting as twice-a-day bonuses). Tropical fruit spreads, bowls of berries, cauldrons of rich, hot, nut-filled cereal, plates of smoked King Salmon, pear butter, and baskets of Blueberry Peanut muffins covered three ping-pong-sized tables. And that was just breakfast. “I’ve never seen so much eating at a healthy food conference,” one attendee said. Stuffed to a state of gastronomic bliss, the message seemed to ring loud and clear to all those present...
...says Katrina L. Welch ’11, one of many players to talk about the relaxing aspects of the pong. “The rules are simple—there isn’t much to learn to get in the game.” But not all ping pongers were as willing to give up their street cred, defending the difficulty of their oft-belittled sport. “You have to be reactive and on your toes. It requires a lot more athleticism and skill than most players initially think,” says co-President...
...York Philharmonic could somehow have a lasting effect on relations between North Korea and the civilized world [March 10]. This flies in the face of the Bard's admonition to remember that what's past is prologue. Not quite four decades ago, the U.S. table-tennis team ping-ponged to Beijing, opening the door for Nixon to play the "China card" against the Soviets, but that only led to nearly two decades of détente. The only effective way to bring about the end of totalitarian regimes is direct confrontation. The U.S.S.R. fell because world leaders like Ronald Reagan...
...much hoopla over whether the New York Philharmonic's performance in Pyongyang could somehow have a lasting effect on relations between North Korea and the civilized world [March 10]. The Bard declared that what's past is prologue. Not quite four decades ago, the U.S. table-tennis team ping-ponged to Peking, enabling Nixon to play the China card against the Soviets, but that only led to nearly two decades of dtente. The only effective way to bring about the end of totalitarian regimes is direct confrontation. The U.S.S.R. fell because Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul...