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...Hometown Pride Your special report on Hong Kong dwelled on expatriates and returnees, perpetuating the misconception that the city's indigenous majority has no value to the city's development other than its money-driven labor [June 18]. A city can never be great if the majority of its population is taught that everything good is foreign. The cosmopolitan city glamorized in your report is a city of cultural orphans brainwashed into becoming submissive to myriad foreign cultures that have been filtered through a colonial sieve. Pierce Lam, HONG KONG
...Authorities in the Australian state of Queensland, say there had been no clues that either Haneef or the second man had any association with terrorism. Queensland Premier Peter Beattie, whose Health Department employed Haneef on a special visa in September 2006, said the doctor had responded in March last year to an advertisement in the British Medical Journal for work in Australia. Haneef was working at a hospital in Liverpool, England, at the time and all appropriate checks had been done to confirm his qualifications. "He was a good employee who was interested in learning his emergency duties...
...native, on Skype. Terpstra had logged on from Alesund, Norway, where she works as a driving-school instructor. "I was just looking to have a conversation with somebody from a different part of the world," she says. "But from the start, I sensed that Mohammed and I had a special bond." The two kept up their online friendship for several months before it developed into something deeper. They then arranged to meet in Damascus. Any trepidation that Subhi, 29, may have felt before the meeting vanished within seconds. "She was exactly the person she appeared to be on Skype: vivacious...
Back in my apartment my iPhone and I became acquainted in the manner of gadgets and reviewers since time immemorial, over spicy Chinese food. The packaging is nothing special, though Apple's trademark fine manufacturing tolerances are evident even in the box, which resists opening with a satisfying pneumatic counter-suck - the cover is so precisely made it's reluctant to let air flow in around it. I hooked the iPhone up to my iBook with a feeling of pride roughly comparable to that of someone setting up an old friend with a really hot blind date. iTunes needed...
...approach seems to have worked to maintain diversity at Montgomery County, Md., Lee County, Fla. and Duval County, Fla. schools, says Maree Sneed, an attorney who helped represent the Seattle School District in the case decided today. Magnet schools engage in a form of marketing by attracting students through special, often high-level, programs and classes. Their record is mixed at best on creating racial diversity...