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...Chinese cities whose skyscrapers and Internet cafés aren't so different from Tokyo's. They are not looking for political or economic refuge. Le Yiping is a polished 25-year-old studying transportation and logistics at the University of Tokyo, one of Japan's premier colleges. "I plan to go back to China after graduation because the business opportunities there are very good," she says - though she admits that other Chinese friends have made similar vows, only to remain in Japan. While Le is here, however, she's on a mission to change her homeland's negative reputation...
...Twice elected and twice disgraced, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned from self-imposed exile and was in cahoots with Musharraf in hopes of again becoming Prime Minister. Musharraf even agreed to drop corruption charges against her. But the plan has backfired, and Bhutto is now deriding Musharraf and proclaiming slogans of democracy. The opportunistic Benazir Bhutto doesn't care one hoot about Pakistan. She is only hungry for power. Lochan Bakshi, Edmonton, Canada...
...What a brilliant piece of writing from Lev Grossman. I don't yet own an iPhone, but I plan to in the near future. Like Grossman, I'm sick of the sour grapes from naysayers who moan about what the iPhone doesn't do and ignore what it does do and just how well it does it. I hate my conventional cell phone with its 100-page, four-language manual that I can't begin to understand. I've used the iPhone without having to look at the manual. And the only language required is intuition. Brad Cathey Wheaton...
...have pegged you as a Republican for sure. “Well, I did have a cardboard cutout of Clarence Thomas in my childhood bedroom. My aunt even got me a subscription to The National Review for Kids. But ever since I heard Hillary speak about her health-care plan, I’ve been hooked.” I see. You’re a policy wonk. “She was wearing this orange pantsuit, low neckline. Dude, I’d wonk that!” Braddock said with a hearty laugh. It was all beginning...
Obama is currently endorsing a plan for universal health care, using money from tax cuts to pay for coverage. “He knew from very early on that he wanted to cover everybody and that there was so much waste in the system...which is exactly right,” Cutler says...