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Behind the recent skirmishes between China and America - the latest surrounding the Dalai Lama's visit to the U.S. - lies a wide divide between the two nations over how they see themselves, each other and their place in the world. (See pictures of the Dalai Lama's visit to the White House...
Location: Dunster is admittedly one of the farther River Houses. An approximately eight- to ten-minute walk from the Yard means that your lazier friends might never come visit you. Still, you’re closer to most upperclassmen than those unfortunate Quadlings, and you might get a lovely River view from your own room. And once you get used to the fact that nothing will ever be as close as it was when you lived in the Yard, a five-minute walk to most of the other River Houses will seem like nothing...
...Lamu archipelago, where bits of Ming ceramic ware have surfaced in the past, and that it will be their legacy that gets burnished when they find it. A team of Chinese archaeologists is expected to commence work in July. It won't be alone - last year, following a visit to Kenya by Chinese President Hu Jintao, a Chinese state petroleum company won concessions to explore more than 100,000 sq km of Kenyan waters for oil. That will be theirs too. Africa, after all, holds more for China these days than just exotic animals...
...religion editor referred to him in a cover story as "my friend." And - full disclosure - he is contributing a chapter to a book I am editing. Moreover, he is himself a very prolific journalist. In addition to writing and blogging for America, he blogged about Pope Benedict's U.S. visit for the New York Times, contributes to Slate and the Huffington Post, stars in Beliefnet videos, and comments frequently for both CNN and NPR. He's written a brace of previous books including the hagiographic memoir My Life with the Saints, which has sold 100,000 copies. Less predictably, after...
...theft, the former Saudi chargé d'affaires, Mohammed Khoja, was adamant, telling the Bangkok Post in 1995 that the murder case and heist were linked. Despite the deaths, the Thai police tried to return the gems that weren't yet sold by Kriangkrai in an official visit to Saudi Arabia, hoping it would end the scandal. It didn't take long, however, for Saudi Arabia to claim that most of the returned goods were imitation baubles. To add insult to injury, the local press reported rumors of photos of the wives of bureaucrats wearing new diamond necklaces...