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...blasted his hosts for harping on China's human-rights record, saying 'there are a few foreigners, with full bellies, who have nothing better to do than try to point fingers at our country.'" Having accompanied Vice President Xi during this trip, I can assure you nothing of the sort was said to any Mexican official or audience. Some Chinese news outlets have reported that Mr. Xi made this comment during a speech to the Chinese community in Mexico. I cannot attest to the accuracy of the quote since the event was only open to Chinese citizens. I would...
...FlyBy feel compelled to give credit where credit is due. The Lampoon did a pretty sick job with what could only have been dreamed up during an acid trip of some sort. Bravo, good sirs. Now, if only you would publish more than five times a year...
...agreement and its concessions on Shari'a law as a way to pacify the bulk of the Taliban's popular support base, while isolating the more implacable jihadist element by denying them a key rallying issue. The generals don't share Clinton's view of the Taliban as some sort of external force invading territory the Pakistani military is obliged to protect; on the contrary, odious though it may be to the country's established political class and to the urban population that lives in the 21st century, the movement appears to be rooted in Pakistan's social fabric...
...Having lived most of their life under a system in which the Communist Party dictated what they could paint and where they could exhibit, the older generation of artists has stayed quiet. But artists who are no longer under the government's thumb are increasingly urging that the museum sort originals from copies by calling in experts to help examine paintings. They also want the museum to produce the records of paintings and remove pieces that are reproductions - or at least label them as such...
...self-destructive act, oddly enough, is a sort of legal tradition in Ireland. As early as the 8th century, villagers aired their grievances and settled disputes by fasting on the doorsteps of their wrongdoers until they were publicly shamed into doing the right thing. The IRA resurrected the practice in 1917, with Thomas Ashe, leader of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, who died in the city's cruelly named Mountjoy Prison during a botched force-feeding. "It is not those who can inflict the most, but those who can suffer the most who will conquer," he declared shortly before...