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...Japan and Vietnam, as Krauthammer proposes, to contain ''the emerging giant of the 21st century"? I am all for pressuring China to liberalize its stance on human rights and other issues. But the methods suggested by Krauthammer, like a U.S. boycott of the Beijing U.N. World Conference on Women, smack of the petulance of a spoiled child. The next big wars will be fought in the world markets, not on the traditional battlefields. Those wars are raging right now, with Japan gaining on us day by day. Although I agree with Krauthammer's goals, the methods he recommends are totally...
Comments such as "Your wife is left-handed...I know" and jokes like "What did one feminist say to another?" were traded along with bonds, smack dab in the middle of this large communal office. In addition, phrases like "get off you knees" were directed at a salesperson (though gender neutrality doesn't hide much here) trying to gain favor with a particular client. The time women most often came up in conversation was in reference to the women these men were divorcing or divorced from. And if you were lucky, you might hear about pick-up joints with...
...that the club is running smoothly, theyseem to just want to stop it. It's just a smack inthe face," Dickerson added
...questions about everything from the number of children they want to whether they are comfortable being naked in front of each other. Mark and Laura, who scored 72 out of 100 on this compatibility test, should do just fine, says Patti, but "there are just some things that smack you in the face that say they've got some work...
Perhaps it's a simply a cultural difference grounded in a Confucian ideal of self-sacrifice, learning and a subordination of the self to a collective, but the statements coming out of these supposedly free-thinking, liberated-from-their-molds individuals smack of brainlessness. Claims that peer pressure and parental pressure to go pre-med have influenced some students' decisions make them seem easily manipulable and thought-controlled. Horror stories about piano lessons and SAT prep courses come right out of an Amy Tan novel about her mother...