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With over twenty-five books to his name, as well as fellowships, honorary degrees and innumerable articles, Harold Bloom is arguably the nation’s premier literary thinker today...
...either Taiwan or China make any careless moves that would provoke cross-strait tensions. Still, it is important to remember that China has always claimed it will not give up the right to occupy Taiwan by force. As a Taiwanese citizen, I think it is very reasonable for Premier Yu Shyi-kun to tell the world that Taiwan will use its missiles if attacked. China should realize that using force is a "really stupid" way to make China and Taiwan unify. Lin Yihui Changhua, Taiwan...
...course, some people were disappointed, and not only Premier League fans. "The government should leave it to the individual to decide whether to bet or not," says Lim Guan Eng, secretary-general of the opposition Democratic Action Party. Malaysia's media sent out a mixed message on the issue: Malay-language newspapers, principally read by Muslims, splashed the cancellation across their front pages, while coverage was subdued-or absent-in the urban English- and Chinese-language press, some of whose readers aren't averse to the occasional bet on a soccer match...
...event celebrated its 40th anniversary this year, and Harvard and Radcliffe crews were again in the mix against the world’s premier rowing competition. Heavy winds at the river’s basin forced officials to shorten the three-mile course to just over two miles long, but a change in scenery did nothing to deter the Harvard’s top Championship Four entry yesterday...
...suite guests at Las Ventanas in Los Cabos, Mexico, are trained by the founder of the Guild of Professional English Butlers. Oberoi Hotel Group in India has a special department to research guest preferences before their stays. So when a customer who likes steam baths recently reserved a premier bungalow at Oberoi's Mauritius resort, he discovered upon arrival that he wouldn't have to bother walking the 20 yards to the spa because management had installed a personal sauna in the garden of his villa. "It's all about the wow factor," says Henry Gray, general manager of Oberoi...