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...that mainlanders are as profligate as, for example, middle-class Americans, whose savings rate is zero. The survey shows that they are value-conscious. Although they are exposed to new trends in high-fashion consumption through the media, many middle-class Chinese still regard "luxury" as a synonym for "unnecessary waste." They tend to buy luxury items such as watches and jewelry sparingly and only when shopping outside the mainland...
...tribute to "over three thousand lives of the bravest young Americans wasted" in Iraq. Unlike many, Obama has opposed this war since the beginning. "Wasted" is a strong word, but not an inaccurate one if you believe the war was wrong. (In fact, the verb "to waste" became a synonym for killing during Vietnam.) But Obama, like every other politician, has to watch his words, and must temper any sincere expression of horror and dismay, or he will be accused of not "supporting the troops...
...articles on China's Me generation, on its daring group of activist lawyers, on preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing and the challenges this showcase will pose to China's political system, on how suburbia is transforming the nation and how China is fast becoming a synonym for international chic. And we will continue to write and report on how America and China must interact in the 21st century. Henry Luce's great passions of the 20th century remain ours today...
...sophomore year approaches, freshmen, beware—the Yard’s bunk beds and random roommates can be pretty bad, but some of the worst living at Harvard is in the Houses. FM scoured both River and Quad, leaving no roach-infested walk-through unvisited and no synonym for “small” unused, to identify the most atrocious rooms. The few and the proud, all housing sophomores: Lowell M-12: Crimson editor Joy Z. Chen is at a loss to describe the shape of the Polly Pocket-sized common room in her double?...
...spectator pointed out after Sauper’s screening of “Darwin’s Nightmare” two months ago at the Harvard Film Archive, any successful art form shakes viewers emotionally. This effect should not be deemed as ghastly or even as a synonym of the much feared “propaganda.” In fact, it is quite the opposite. Drawing from scholarly research by P. M. Taylor, the main difference between art and propaganda is not that hard to spot: the first does not advance any particular course of action to change...