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What does china really think of the U.S.? Spend some time in the Middle Kingdom, and you'll hear both protestations of admiration and plenty of disparaging comments about the West. Such attitudes have a long history. In 1602 the imperial Chinese court learned that the inhabitants of North America were "kindly and hospitable to strangers." On the other hand, they "kill one another all the year round, and spend their time in fighting and robbery. They feed exclusively on snakes, ants, spiders and other creeping things...
...Growing up, I didn’t spend a lot of time in one place,” Conor says. “I had to adjust, going to different schools, having to learn a different language in Germany. We’d be back to Ontario, and I’d have my friends there, but I’d have been away for six [or] seven months when my dad was in season...It was tough adjusting to the different social settings...
...than peer institutions like Yale and Stanford over the last few years, but the increased food consumption should not dramatically affect costs. Most Annen-burglars are not hoarders: They just want to take the occasional item because they know they will be hungry later and do not want to spend extra money buying food outside the dining hall. Annenberg’s prohibition of this kind of “stealing” is unfair...
What do you think is the future of capital punishment in the U.S.? My prediction is that we're going to get rid of it for economic reasons. We spend at least a million dollars more on a death-penalty case than on a non-death-penalty case. In the U.S., where we've executed 1,200 people since the death penalty [was reinstated in 1976], that's $1.2 billion. I just think, gosh, with $1.2 billion, you could hire a lot of policemen. You could have a lot of educational programs inside of prisons, so that when people come...
...been stronger - the two countries staged their largest ever joint military exercise last year. But most Americans don't really want to be part of a war for Middle Eastern supremacy - they want the U.S. out of Iraq and Afghanistan as quickly as possible and for their government to spend that money creating jobs at home...