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Beijing says 19 people, mostly innocent Chinese shopkeepers, were killed in the unrest, but it's still by no means clear exactly what happened or how many died. The truth may be irrelevant compared with what Tibetans believe took place. During my trip through Qinghai, it became clear that ordinary Tibetans believe hundreds, possibly thousands of their compatriots were gunned down. When I asked Dorje if last year's protests could eventually be forgotten, he shook his head. "Even my son's sons and their sons will remember. We will never forget," he said...
...dreams about bad things happening to their friends. Similarly, we invest more meaning in dreams in which our enemies are punished and less meaning in dreams in which our enemies emerge victorious. In short, our interpretation of dreams may say a lot less about some quixotic search for hidden truth than it does about another enduring human quality: optimistic thinking...
...After Griles' guilty plea in the Jack Abramoff influence peddling case: "I am most proud of the willingness of the many current and former department employees who told the truth about this top Interior official, sometimes at great risk to their own careers." (Washington Post, March...
...rather technical subject of budget gimmickry. Obama previewed this line of reasoning on Monday, when he kicked off a fiscal summit at the White House. "For too long, our budget process in Washington has been an exercise in deception," Obama announced. "We do ourselves no favors by hiding the truth about what we spend." In specific terms, this means accounting for expenses like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as natural disasters as part of the normal budget process. But the bigger point is to differentiate Obama, who remains quite popular, from Bush, who remains quite unpopular...
...long-term viability of the companies being acquired, according to a senior analyst with Crisil, an Indian debt-rating agency. Differences in culture, managerial norms and regulatory environments were improperly understood. "The past few months reflect that [India] became overconfident," the analyst says. "The Indian story became the gospel truth and vulnerabilities were not recognized." Those vulnerabilities are readily apparent...