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What would you say to a recent journalism graduate who's watching newspapers and magazines fold left and right? I'd say go for it. Keep your standards high. Understand that your role is to seek the truth, wherever it leads...
...think you're best remembered for it? Because I'm so sassy. Most people worship at their shrine. They bow and scrape, and I say, "Who's this?" I sound very sophisticated, but I'm not. I've seen photographs of myself with my mouth open and wide-eyed when I see the President, and I say to myself, I'm not that jaded. I can tell I'm a fraud...
...timing is good," says David Zweig, director of the Center on China's Transnational Relations at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "China has been very active to get as many commitments on energy around the world before the dollar devalues too much." In August, China signed a $41 billion contract to buy liquefied natural gas over the next 20 years from Australia. Last month, China's state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) entered talks with Nigeria to buy as much as one-sixth of the West African nation's proven petroleum reserves, the Financial Times...
Indeed there will. France and Spain back Blair, at least for now. Angela Merkel, the leader of Europe's largest economy, remains enigmatic. Westminster insiders say Merkel will come through for Blair. A German government source is more nuanced. "The Chancellor worked well with [Blair] during the 2007 German E.U. presidency when the Lisbon Treaty was sealed. But of course, she worked well with others too." The presidential race isn't over until the E.U.'s undisputed heavyweight sings. With reporting by Bruce Crumley / Paris...
...entirely unexpected," laments Salima Hashmi, an artist, professor of art, and lifelong Lahori. "We can no longer say that it's just the northwest part of Pakistan [under attack]. This is now also about Punjab, one surmises. A second chapter in the development of militancy in Pakistan has opened." More forcefully than ever before, the past 10 days have raised urgency about the threat that Pakistan's heartlands face from within. "This is not something that we can blame on other forces," adds Hashmi. "It has been fostered by our internal politics and strategy...