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...further." For all his sex-drenched crudeness, for all the e-mails he sends me worrying about ulcers, Apatow is a bouncy, way-too-happily married dad who wants his audiences to know how great life is. And, more important, to remind himself. (See pictures of Judd Apatow's war on Jay Leno...
Minorities in China Recently it seems to have become fashionable to criticize China as a country of injustice and repression [War in the West, July 20]. Of course, Chinese internal policy often contradicts Western democratic ideals, but we must not forget that millions of Han Chinese are facing the very same troubles as the Uighurs: economic discrimination and travel restrictions. In addition, China is not the only country in which minorities are underprivileged. Europe and the U.S. both face the problem of minorities that are not properly integrated. But in the Chinese case, things seem to be different: for example...
...general, that tends to be the American attitude. For even though Census data can be put to ill purpose - in World War II they were used to figure out which neighborhoods had large Japanese populations, so that people could more easily be rounded up for internment camps - what tends to trump those concerns is our fascination with ourselves and desire to be represented...
...other leaders on their home ground in the Kurds' oil-rich, self-ruled area. "We urged them to take advantage of our remaining time in Iraq to settle some of these disputed issues," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters. (Read "With U.S. Pullout, Iraq Takes Ownership of Its War...
...Nouri al-Maliki, who gets to burnish his tough-guy credentials ahead of national elections early next year as well as please his allies, the ayatullahs. There's little love in Iraq for the MEK, which was welcomed by Saddam Hussein in the mid-'80s, when he was at war with Iran, and supplied with a training camp and armaments. The group is accused of repaying its benefactor by helping quash Kurdish and Shi'ite rebellions - charges the MEK has denied...