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...From Jiang's point of view, the U.S. is doing little to help him keep the hard-liners at bay. Indeed, the Bush administration's consideration of Taiwan's request to buy two sophisticated anti-missile destroyers has put him in a perilous position. Taiwan is a kind of Jerusalem (in the political rather than religious sense) to latter-day Chinese nationalism, and anything perceived as putting the "rebel island" finally beyond China's reach is quite simply intolerable to Beijing...
David Molnar: I am catching up on e-mail, thinking about math homework, and trying to enjoy a bit of blessed idleness at the same time. Except this idyll has been interrupted by a friend's talk-request, which led to a conversation which has led to me being late for a meeting at Uno's. There we'll talk, and I'll flirt with the idea of having my first legal drink on the way to tonight's Going of the Hour ceremony...
Josh Vonkorff: Your request for a report of my activities is marked 6:38 p.m., and therefore arrived at 5:38 p.m. central time. I first read it at 7 p.m., when my clock said 8 p.m. due to having been set ahead in anticipation of Daylight Savings Time. At that point, my family held a special emergency Passover seder seven days early, in honor of my being home. Synchronicity manifested itself when the pizza delivery guy arrived (Is pizza unleavened bread?) shortly after the front door was symbolically opened to let in the prophet Elijah...
...through ABC's reality series Making the Band, which showed boy-band architect Lou Pearlman holding auditions and casting O-Town from scratch. The team behind MTV's The Real World captured the group's production, primping, packaging--and, of course, fights with girlfriends. A year, several MTV Total Request Live appearances and a platinum album later, the boys are belting out Liquid Dreams (an almost parodic number about autoerotic fantasies starring celebrities), putting touching sincerity into lines like, "And Salma Hayek brings...
...Palestinian doctor has told her to get him quickly to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. The Israeli army lieutenant in charge, Ari Doron, sees that the boy is in bad shape and frantically telephones higher-ups for permission to let him and his mother through. After agonizing delays, Doron's request is denied, but he decides to disobey the order. By then it is too late; Ibrahim dies in a waiting ambulance...