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...Take the Dalai Lama episode. The opposition DPP invited him to Taiwan in order to put Ma in a spot - he'd be damned by his own people as a mainland lackey if he did not okay the visit and condemned by Beijing if he did. Ma took a gamble: he approved the trip - and bet on China's leaders appreciating his dilemma. They did. Their censure was directed solely at the DPP, with no mention of Ma whatsoever. Far from harming cross-strait relations, the Dalai Lama's visit revealed how mature those relations have become...
...time last year, it appeared that this deficit-ignoring bliss might end. Chinese officials said repeatedly that they were uncomfortable holding so many U.S. securities. Interest rates on Treasuries inched up. And another billionaire launched an assault on deficit spending - this time private-equity kingpin Peter Peterson, who took most of the $1.9 billion he made from the 2007 initial public offering of his Blackstone Group and put it into a foundation devoted to raising fiscal awareness...
...first American tour. He played bass. On drums was Leo Sacks, a Grammy-nominated music producer of vintage R&B who is making a documentary on the New Orleans gospel icon Raymond Myles. TIME writer Gilbert Cruz, the only participant who knew his way around the Rock Band platform, took lead guitar. The vocals were shared by TIME Arts editor Radhika Jones, whose father Robert was a folksinger in the '60s and whose mom once dined with George Harrison, and yours truly, who saw the Beatles perform at Philadelphia's Convention Hall in 1964 and for months afterward affected...
Before the Ultimate Tournament of Champions, I overheard our three contestants talking before the show. They were saying, You know what we should do to throw Alex off his game? We should take our trousers off. So I took my trousers off, and I walked out without pants. And that really blew them away...
Afraid I would lose, I asked O'Neal, who I assumed took five minutes to speak his piece to an assistant, how the writing went. He told me it had taken him four hours, five drafts and four friends, who had given him advice. "I tried to use a lot of big words to sound Harvardish," he said. "I just really respect your profession. I didn't want to have too many Ebonic words in there." And I do believe that at Harvard, students now write papers in which they...