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...fails to explain why people in the U.S. and other countries share the Chinese people's outrage. Unless the West can come to terms with the fact that China is going to be a major global power, the notion that China will be a destabilizing force is more a self-fulfilling prophecy than an inevitable outcome. M. Loo, WASHINGTON...
...much a paradise lost as one never had. "A Hymn to Childhood," addressed either to the reader or to himself in the second person, has soldiers smashing a mother's china, while "you pretended to be dead with your sister in games of rescue and abandonment." The poem "Self-Help for Fellow Refugees" opens with his father being bundled into a truck by either government forces or fearsome freelance thugs. That scene, it must be said, reprises earlier writing. The tendency is a major flaw in Lee's corpus - if one writes almost exclusively about one's family history...
...said. “The solution must come from joint collaboration with the Han and Tibetan peoples.” An upsurge of violence between protestors and Chinese government troops flared up in March of this year surrounding the status of Tibet’s self-declared government-in-exile. “Ultimately we are here today to listen to different perspectives on this situation,” Holcombe added. Panel member Tenzin Dickyi ’08, a Tibetan born in India, recounted her two-and-a-half-month stay in Tibet three years ago to illustrate...
...hoped his question "doesn't seem odd in the whitest place on earth"-asked Obama if he would launch another "national conversation about race," as President Clinton did. And Obama said: No. "I'm less interested in a conversation about race in the abstract," he said. "All the self-flagellation, it's not useful. African-Americans get all riled up, and whites get defensive...
Allow President Pervez Musharraf a little chuckle: The general had always rationalized his military rule in Pakistan by claiming that the country's civilian politicians were too feckless and self-serving to govern effectively. And he may be feeling vindicated by the collapse of the coalition that took power in March after Pakistan's electorate delivered a stinging rebuke to Musharraf. On Monday, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated a new season of political instability by announcing that his Pakistani Muslim League (PML-N) would withdraw on Tuesday from the government led by the Pakistan People's Party...