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Such attitudes illustrate the contrast between the West's vocal outrage at human-rights abuses, even as Western oil companies are exploring there, and the Asian view that such issues should be handled without direct confrontation. Some Asians even see the latest Peace Prize as a form of interference in Burma's domestic affairs, even of neocolonial badgering. Almost all Asian governments are more eager to do business with Burma than to put pressure on it. South Korea recently opened a household-appliance factory there. China has agreed to sell the junta almost $1 billion in armaments, partly in return...
...Hoffman said that Discount Records will continue to prosper because it provides a different selection, with unique jazz, vocal and international sections...
...around. In the entire announced and prospective field, not a single Democratic contender has more than a nodding acquaintance with foreign and defense policy. While there is still time to appear credible on these issues, most of those challenging Bush appear comfortable with their collective weakness. None are as vocal about it as Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, who has come to play with his spikes sharpened. But most candidates have bought the notion that the threat of red ink outweighs the threat from Red Square and that a strategy long on domestic prescriptions can turn the trick. Only Arkansas Governor...
That idolatry is now guttering out -- inconveniently, by many people's lights -- for several reasons. The U.S. population is not what it was during the first decades of the 19th century; it now includes a higher percentage of people, and a number of far more vocal people, who feel they have a historic grievance against Columbus and the European invasion he represented. These include, most prominently, Native Americans, many of whom have joined hands with their coevals in Latin and South America to take a stand against a long- ago uninvited guest; and African Americans, whose forebears were packed into...
Included in the cabaret is "More," a number originally sung by Madonna in the film Dick Tracy and here performed with energetic vibrancy by Alexis Toomer. The Material Girl has been outdone by Toomer, whose precise timing of vocal delivery combines with just the right amount of flirtatious mischief...