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...challenged American ships off the coast of China and cracked down hard in Tibet for the 50th anniversary of the 1959 uprising. Yet Beijing has largely avoided high-level censure. In Washington, the State Department released a statement on the repression in Tibet in the name of a spokesman, rather than in the name of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, thereby making the message far less consequential...
...rather disappointing and uneventful two days for the Harvard sailing team this past weekend out on the Charles River, as the Crimson competed in some of the trickiest conditions of its spring season...
...this hypocrisy casts the Arab world in a very negative light. But, while the Arab reaction was perhaps expected, the nonchalance with which the great Western powers have dealt with the matter is at least as disturbing, given their official opposition to Bashir’s acts. Rather than boycotting the Arab summit, Secretary General Ban Ki Moon appeared and delivered only a brief denouncement of Bashir regarding his expulsion of 13 aid groups from the country. Indeed, the Western response has on the whole been lacking. Reaction from world leaders was limited to calls for the Sudanese government...
...Sisyphean punishment for an indefensibly retarded response to the Internet. A show on fox.com is competing with the exact same show on youku.com and tudou.com, Chinese versions of YouTube. Foreigners pine for a taste of the gold standard of entertainment and will find a way to get it. Rather than play a fruitless game of cat and mouse with a billion Chinese, networks and producers ought to harness the potential of this vast audience. Admittedly, there have been efforts to do so as recently as last year through acquisitions of international media outlets and distributors, but the efforts have been...
...Wednesday, universities and colleges across Indiana, Minnesota, and Utah announced a pilot project that would set common learning standards across institutions in those states. The project, supported by the Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation for Education, will specify a consensus-based set of skills, rather than a subjective number of credits earned or courses taken, that qualify a candidate to receive a degree in a particular field. In effect, one program advocate told The New York Times, “If you’re majoring in chemistry, here is what I expect you to learn in terms of laboratory skills...