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...This flies in the face of a 1987 Political Science Quarterly study concluding that Niles “developed the rationale” for the Truman-appointed Civil Rights Committee, whose work led to the desegregation of the federal workforce and the armed services. Niles is just one more victim of Perret’s scattershot storytelling...
...Cheney, who was scheduled to meet on Feb. 22 with the parents of one Japanese abductee victim, calmed nerves in Tokyo by reiterating American support for the North Korean kidnapping issue, and diplomats on both sides are playing down talk of a divide over North Korea. "I don't agree with people who argue that Japan is being left behind [by the U.S.]," says a senior Japanese official. Certainly the American and Japanese militaries are only growing closer, as Japan sheds its postwar pacifism and asserts itself more vigorously in concert with the U.S. But any alliance needs shared goals...
...After all, Antigonus turns out to be the victim of Shakespeare’s most famous stage direction: “Exit, pursued by a bear.” It’s grim and horrible and everything, but come on. Bears are funny...
...Still, Heymann concedes, the Indonesians have a point. This nation of 245 million has suffered more fatalities from bird flu than any other country, with its 63rd victim dying Jan. 19. Yet, if a pandemic does arise, Indonesia might well be one of the last in line to receive a vaccine: most of the world's limited production capacity is already spoken for by wealthier nations. A recent article in the British medical journal the Lancet predicted that if the next pandemic were to be as deadly as the 1918 flu, 96% of its estimated 62 million victims would come...
Apparently, this makes me some sort of a reverse-Scrooge in American society. From what I can tell, if you don’t hate Valentine’s Day, it’s assumed that you’re either shamelessly romantic or a helpless victim of the Big Bad Hallmark Man. But seeing as I don’t fall under either of those categories, I think there’s another explanation: I went to an all-girls high school...