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So both Chinese and non-Chinese have legitimate challenges and understandable phobias. Google is just a proxy in this intensifying dispute. It's really about rebalancing the economic and political dynamic between China and the developed world, with the U.S. as the key negotiator for the West. It won't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The China Fix | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

In the popular imagination, there seem to be only two ways of viewing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One—that which Mr. Rashid espouses in his article—portrays Israel as an oppressive force that brutally persecutes the Palestinian people. The other, the one I was raised with...

Author: By Samuel L. Linden | Title: LETTER | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

“The economics profession has to recognize that some of the models that have been very dominant in thinking are very badly flawed,” Stiglitz said. “Markets are not as efficient, people are not as rational as we assumed.”

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stiglitz Faults Fed, Banks For Crisis | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

Some state courts have found that laws forbidding gay marriage achieve no legitimate interest at all. And others have ruled that while same-sex marriage bans may be rational, they can't survive a higher scrutiny that courts reserve for special classes of citizens - such as racial minorities and, on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gay-Marriage Lawsuit Dares to Make Its Case | 1/5/2010 | See Source »

So, by your standards, we are not "rational." I mean, look, we just had a planeload of missile parts intercepted in Thailand. I think you know where that plane was headed. Why in the world would we be shipping parts for our glorious Taepodong 2 missile to Iran, when the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear President Obama: What North Korea Might Say | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

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