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...That's a question millions of Asians are asking. Across the region, the price of food, from wheat to pork, is increasing at dizzying rates. But it is rice, the foundation of Asia's diet and a potent symbol of its cultures, that is causing the most anxiety. In Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and elsewhere, the price of rice has doubled in the past year, a hike that hurts all the more because Asian families often spend half of their weekly budget on food, more than double what Western households spend. In an effort to contain spiraling domestic prices...
Outside the North Korean city of Kaesong, there is an industrial park that is meant to be a symbol of a new era of cooperation between Stalinist North Korea and democratic South Korea. Located close to their heavily armed border, the park houses South Korean factories that crank out clothing and other merchandise produced with the help of more than 23,500 North Korean laborers. It's a bubble of congeniality between two countries that are still technically at war - one that abruptly burst on March 24, when North Korean authorities ordered 11 South Korean government officers stationed at Kaesong...
From start to finish, Heston was a grand, ornery anachronism, the sinewy symbol of a time when Hollywood took itself seriously, when heroes came from history books, not comic books. Epics like Ben-Hur or El Cid simply couldn't be made today, in part because popular culture has changed as much as political fashion. But mainly because there's no one remotely like Charlton Heston to infuse the form with his stature, fire and guts...
...blue-and-white track suits are traveling the world to protect the Olympic torch, but, in the flame's tumultuous tour so far, they have become a symbol of Beijing's heavy-handedness. The tracksuit-clad Sacred Torch Guard Team was drawn from China's paramilitary People's Armed Police, which is used for internal security. The group formed last August and trained by running six miles daily. While their chief mission is to protect the flame, they've also cracked down on protesters. Sebastian Coe, a two-time medalist and chairman of the London Games in 2012, called them...
...parents, but our memories ought to mean far more. Our best keepsakes come, free of charge, from the dining halls, dorms, classrooms, and clubs where they were formed. And in spite of all the solicitations made for photographs, jewelry, and other items, these recollections remain the most important symbol of graduation day and all that came before it. The University should make that realization too, and take care to limit their commoditization of Commencement. Reva P. Minkoff ’08, the former Crimson Staff Director, is a senior government concentrator in Pforzheimer House...