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...Elephant and Dragon I read with interest your essay on Sino-Indian tensions [Aug. 31]. It is clear that a major conflict between India and communist China would pose a very serious global threat. Yet I share the view that the long-term survival of India as a multicultural nation is more securely assured than that of communist China. Like all totalitarian states, China has decided to ensure the power of the central state by subduing all local cultures and languages. A vast country like India, with ancient traditions, many languages and several religions, has to tread a narrow path...
...Whether or not to include the G.D.R. guards is just one more example of the difficulty that Germans still have with their history. For much of the period after World War II, both the G.D.R. and West Germany resisted serious examination of their collective culpability for Nazism. In the West, that denial poisoned relations between the generations, infusing Germany's student and counterculture movements with an anger not matched in other countries. A similar failure to confront the truth about the G.D.R. - its violent repression and the extent to which East Germans accepted and sometimes aided the regime - expresses itself...
...talking about serious issues here, and this is not just a serious suggestion at all.' STEVEN HAMBLETON, an Australian Medical Association executive, on a Queensland government advisory that doctors consume the equivalent of six cups of coffee to cope with fatigue...
...People who don’t have access to [health] care tend to have more serious health outcomes. That is quite intuitive,” said Andrew P. Wilper, lead researcher. “However, our study quantifies the effects of not having health insurance on mortality...
...Crimson was outshot, 9-2, in the first frame, and it looked as if Harvard’s chances of matching its best season start in the past five years was in serious jeopardy...