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...Hill remarked that China is not "a democracy of our type." Quite. The so-called "peaceful rise of China" is a global brand; it has been marketed as such to Western consumers, who don't think long about China's prisons, its taste for capital punishment or its scant regard for workers' rights. Just keep the cheap stuff coming! Like most countries, China has a spy network. Big deal. Nevertheless, it's good for the Australian public occasionally to see beyond the twaddle of "special friendships" and to enter, for a moment, the less congenial world inhabited by Chinese dissidents...
...based on whaling," says 67-year-old Yusa, whose family has been in whaling for two generations. That prosperity died when commercial whaling was banned by the IWC in 1986. Japan was still permitted to kill almost 1,000 whales a year for scientific research, which conservation groups regard as little more than backdoor commercial whaling. But whale meat went from a cheap staple to an expensive delicacy. Ports like Ayukawa hollowed out. You can still find whale in restaurants here, but it's not locally caught?and at $55 for a meal of minke, it's far too costly...
...last 100 against all countries. Only in April, the England and Wales Cricket Board set 2009 as the date by which the No. 2-ranked England would be ready to claim the top spot. Considering there'll be two Ashes series in the meantime, many Australians would regard this as typical Pommie pessimism. England, after all, was unbeaten in Tests last year and has lost only two of its last 20. About the boldest comments have come from the paceman Darren Gough, recently retired from Test cricket but still in England's one-day squad. "This English team has some...
...Museum in Künzelsau, north of Stuttgart, Germany, in October and to Athens next summer, before heading to the U.S. in late 2006. The exhibition is sure to delight the many devotees of Botero's work, but it's certain to leave other art lovers nonplussed. Some critics regard his work as predictable and shallow - "popular" in the worst sense of the word. Botero admits that people relate more readily to his style than to more abstract or conceptual works, but is proud of that fact. "It communicates very easily with people," he says. So is Botero a great...
...leadership style and the overall structure of power in the University. It was and is important for Summers to bridge the gap between the presidency and the Faculty—taking extra steps to increase communication and to repair some of his mistakes in the past few years with regard to faculty interaction...