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...dogface at an Air Force base in Texas a year after Pearl Harbor. I don't recall that first year's anniversary as comparable in any way to the crescendo of media hype now being thrown at us over Sept. 11. While we feel compassion for those who lost loved ones, we need to look ahead. As a great nation, we should try to overlook our religious and ethnic differences and work with other nations to alleviate poverty and disease and create an environmentally safe world for future generations. Such a common goal would be a far greater memorial than...
...morning when I was 19--having been thrown out of everything, including college--a moment came that changed the course of my life. I'd taken one of the cars to a party in New York City the night before. Someone had vomited all over the front seat. But since I got home at 5 a.m., I went to bed without cleaning it up. At 9:30 that morning, when I went down to breakfast in this opulent dining room--9:30 was the deadline--I was met by stony silence from my adoptive parents...
When Hong Kong reverted to chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997, the air was full of forecasts of impending doom for the former British colony's individual freedoms. There were predictions of army tanks in the streets, democratic politicians thrown into jail, and personal liberties curtailed. Nothing like that happened, of course. Apart from anything else, Beijing knew better than to arouse international concern or upset the carefully crafted agreements with London over autonomy and the Basic Law, Hong Kong's new mini-constitution...
...Sinuiju gambit, however, is aimed at one of the country's few allies: China. The tightly controlled border crossing at Sinuiju will be thrown open to Chinese labor and business?which Yang's appointment is meant to entice. China offers not just investment capital. The country and its rising class of entrepreneurs can conceivably teach North Korea how to turn a crumbling communist state into an economic dynamo. After all, Beijing two decades ago launched free-trade zones to lure foreign investment as a prelude to transforming the whole country into a market economy...
Rose avoids mistakes, big and small. He has thrown as many touchdowns (three) as incomplete passes. Fitzpatrick, for all his strengths, has not shown that same efficiency through...