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With “God Lives in St. Petersburg” added to his previous works—most notably “Chasing the Sea,” which centered around the Aral—Bissell is proving to be the premier contemporary author of Americans adrift around the world...
...Winkle had dozed off in the 1950s, he might not have felt completely out of place waking up at the annual meeting of China's parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), which wrapped up a week-long session on Tuesday. Here was Premier Wen Jiabao intoning the importance of "building a new socialist countryside." There were education officials unveiling a campaign to publish dozens of new Marxist university textbooks. NPC delegates, who had dutifully attended mandatory sessions to study speeches by Chairman Mao, even failed to pass a Western-style property rights law because, in part, Party leftists felt...
...weekend, a rare up-and-down for any Delaney-Smith-coached team.But each time, a group of four freshmen earned valuable minutes against the Ivy League’s best. Freshman Katie Rollins learned well what happens when you come out sluggish defensively against the league’s premiere post player, as Princeton’s Becky Brown buried 24 first-half points in the teams’ first meeting. Sophomore Lindsay Hallion, who missed all of her freshman season with a torn ACL, logged serious time in the point guard spot. And Emily Tay, who began the season...
...country’s premier opinion pages made the same contention, attributing Summers’ ouster to the political correctness of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Wall Street Journal focused on Summers’ encounter with Cornel West, his support of the military, and his comments on the “intrinsic aptitude” of women in science as the causes of Faculty discontent. The Journal portrayed the Faculty as “largely left-wing” with “about as much intellectual diversity as the Pyongyang parliament.” Arguing from...
...perceived stereotypical divide between the Yee-Haw province and Ye Olde Canada grew wider last week when Alberta Premier Ralph Klein plunked down a series of health-care proposals that collectively hit the country like a splash of cold water. Dubbed the Third Way, the bulk of the province's health-care "policy framework" is laudable stuff, though mostly not revolutionary. The first proposal, for instance, is to put patients' interests first. But mixed among the ideas, planners included an out-of-the-box proposal that would allow private clinics to offer certain services currently available only under Medicare...