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...Walsh, a 29-year veteran. “He had a Zito-eqsue breaking ball, starting at the armpits and [ending up] down at the knees. BC had five left-handers [in the lineup], and he was neutralizing them, mesmerizing them—whatever verb you want to use...
...cartoonists must be careful to ensure that these symbols are correctly interpreted—which often necessitates the use of cliches understood by an international audience, said Daryl Cagle, owner of the cartoon database Web site Cagle Cartoons and cartoonist for MSNBC.com...
...perhaps even worse than its distortion of history is the Crimson staff’s use of vague generalizations where specifics are needed for reasoned debate. Which of the dictatorships and monarchies surrounding Israel does the Crimson staff believe the U.S. must grow closer to? Which Israeli actions does the Crimson staff consider “atrocities” rather than legitimate self-defense? Rather than answer such questions and provide concrete policy prescriptions, the Crimson falls back on the trope—popular among totalitarian regimes during the Cold War—that Israeli actions are imperialist and racist...
While the overall nature of these jobs has not changed, lawyers should use the crisis as motivation to advise their clients—especially those in the financial sector—in a more cautious manner, Feldman said...
...another factor at work here. Yushu sits at what was the edge of the old Chinese empire, and to this day its predominant population is not Han, the ethnic group that rules the new China, but Tibetan. Indeed, the name Yushu, or "Jade Tree," is not what the locals use, beautiful as it is. Yushu is Mandarin, the language of the bureaucrats of Beijing. The town uses Jyekundo, which is Tibetan - the language of the exiled Dalai Lama, a bête noire of the Chinese government. Dominating a large square in Yushu was a spectacular statue not of some...