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Person of the Week As Chinese President, Jiang Zemin has seen relations with the U.S. rise and fall and rise again. Now, after a triumphant visit to George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, Jiang seems ready to ride off into the sunset with a diplomatic coup in his saddlebag. He is expected to hand over his reins to a new posse of leaders this month...
...universalist religion of humanitarianism and human rights--a faith without borders, like globalization, or like communism in the old days--has its optimists, who imagine a future of triumphant international decency, and its pessimists, who think expecting people to be nice is a mug's game. David Rieff is a pessimist--a gloomy pessimist at that. At the end of his ruthlessly lucid book A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (Simon & Schuster; 367 pages), Rieff, with disconsolate satisfaction, quotes Alberto Navarro, former director of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office, as saying, "Mankind is slowly...
...would then sit back down and make flashcards, later rise and go to Pier One. I would feel awkward about purchasing these “nicer not necessary” pillows until the cashier informed me that my gift certificate was not $25 but $50. Triumphant, I would eventually arrive back to my room in Cabot with groceries for baking cookies (>$10), wall adhesive ($6), a flat-back garbage pail ($2), a full stomach ($4), two seat cushions and a throw pillow ($34), and a “nicer not necessary” bike helmet ($30). Later that...
...Baltimore, for which Waters is still the perverse poet laureate, never looked lovelier. Watch the moon shimmer in a puddle, as a rat crawls through it. See Tracy triumphant, in her pink roach-patterned evening gown. See "Hairspray" too, on a double DVD (with "Pecker") that features Waters' ever-fabulous commentary. It's light and airy, but it will stick around: the first aerosol movie...
...also thought about using bear lard,” Teddy said, “but I’m a vegetarian.” (Sadly, in spite of tofurkey’s triumphant emergence as the cultural bridge between vegetarians and the rest of mankind, the creative minds at the forefront of vegetarian substitutes have yet to come up with a tofu-based option to satisfy a vegetarian’s occasional need for bear lard...