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...Republican members and some key staffers on the House Ethics Committee who were believed to be hostile to him were replaced, a situation Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi last week dubbed "DeLaygate." Democrats hope to take their case against DeLay to the public, much like they did with former Speaker Newt Gingrich in the late 1990s. The problem: Many Americans have no idea who DeLay is. Defining Gingrich as a sort of Republican boogey-man was easy because Gingrich was the defined leader of the Republicans, had made the cover of TIME Magazine and was at one point so powerful President...
...uninitiated: the IOP’s programming is a result of a strange coordination between the Institute’s paid staff and the Student Advisory Committee (SAC), about 40 Harvard undergrads. Working with money and space left as a memorial to President Kennedy, the Institute offers speaker forums, study groups led by renowned political minds, policy groups and more. It’s one of the only places in the world where college kids can regularly interact with the political elite, gaining skills, experiences and, yes, connections that might allow us to someday join them...
...make no mistake, Clissold reports from deep in the trenches. Eventually Pat invests in a variety of companies in China, dealing with everything from beer to brake pads; there's nothing glamorous about any of them. Clissold, a fluent Mandarin speaker, becomes Pat's chief troubleshooter--and there's plenty of trouble. (How does $58 million "disappearing" from the books of a company you've bought grab you?) This is the mid to late '90s, remember, when to many Chinese the definition of capitalism still seemed to be "The foreigner comes, gives me a lot of money, then goes away...
...serious subjects, "Four Immigrants" always remains true to its comic strip nature, telling its stories with charm and good humor. Originally a bilingual text, dialogue spoken between Japanese characters appeared in Japanese, but any interaction with the "whiteys" has been written in the Pidgin English of the non-native speaker. A good deal of credit for the book's readability goes to its translator, Frederik L. Schodt, who has been writing about Japanese comics since the 1980s, and rediscovered "Four Immigrants." Wisely leaving the English as-is, Schodt makes the original Japanese dialogue seem natural without being inappropriately modern. Additionally...
...gift campaign is not the first of Mahan and Terry’s efforts for divestment. Last year, the pair demonstrated against graduation speaker and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan for failing to take action against the genocide in Sudan...