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...1970s. It was also badly managed, and the agency became an ungainly bureaucracy. It didn't just happen under George W.; it's been going on for decades. It got to the point where you could be an officer on the front between Afghanistan and Pakistan, living in a tent for three years, hunting down bin Laden, and there could be a logistics guy back at headquarters who takes his kids to soccer practice on Saturday mornings and gets promoted faster...
...Much of this outreach is reminiscent of the famous Lyndon Johnson quote about then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover: "it?s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in." The politicians hope that by developing a close relationship with like-minded blogs, the bloggers will feel more like part of the team and will temper their criticism. But even friendly blogs aren't easy to satisfy - as Pelosi found out after her Daily Kos encounter. Democratic aides complain that Matt Stoller, a blogger for mydd.com, another popular liberal site, never seems satisfied...
...DemonstrationsTearoom, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, 5 Bryant St. 10:45 AM Japanese Tea Ceremony DemonstrationsTearoom, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, 5 Bryant St.11:00 AM A Tale of Two CitiesRadcliffe Yard 11:30 AM Struttin’ With Some Barbeque: The New Orleans Jazz TraditionARTS FIRST Tent, Science Center Japanese Tea Ceremony DemonstrationsTearoom, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, 5 Bryant St. 12:00 PM Clay Creations at the Potter’s WheelScience Center Hands-On ArtDudley House A Tale of Two CitiesRadcliffe Yard12:15 PM Japanese Tea Ceremony DemonstrationsTearoom, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department...
...there's any Chinese who feels a warm glow inside when he sees an American flag fluttering in the breeze, it's Zhan Bingkui. As foreign-trade manager of the Shanghai Flag and Tent Factory, the chain-smoking 50-year-old sells tens of thousands of flags to America each year. With his livelihood at stake, Zhan is keenly aware of the state of relations between the two countries. In the past few years, he says, Chinese attitudes toward America have improved significantly: "China is more open now and is more friendly to the U.S." Still, the relationship remains complicated...
...like Microsoft and Boeing. But the extent of the change in China's sense of itself is equally evident among ordinary folk. A few blocks from Shanghai's Bund, a huge American flag dominates the entrance to an outlet selling the 100%-polyester products of the Shanghai Flag and Tent Factory. In the dim interior, soft-spoken salesman Zhang Xinwei says he admires the U.S.'s economic might and its innovative corporations, remarking: "I don't understand why Americans are scared of China's rise - there are so many great things that still come from America." And yet, says Zhang...