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...both Chinese and non-Chinese have legitimate challenges and understandable phobias. Google is just a proxy in this intensifying dispute. It's really about rebalancing the economic and political dynamic between China and the developed world, with the U.S. as the key negotiator for the West. It won't be easy. China and the U.S. are past masters at blaming their domestic policy failings on outsiders. Finger-pointing politicians and chest-beating nationalists in the two nations will make rational discussion nearly impossible. Yet it is time for leaders on both sides of the Pacific to lift their heads above...
Unlike Scherl and Buchanan, the opponent of the Crimson’s No. 1 senior Colin West did not need overtime to take control...
Remember when the Westboro Baptists paid Cambridge a visit last spring? Well, they're back in action—only this time on the West Coast. Just as at Harvard, students at Stanford banded together yesterday to drown out the cries of the Westboro protestors denouncing gays, Jews, and just about everything else under the sun. Here are some choice photos from The Stanford Review of the event, which looked as though it succeded in uniting the Stanford community more than anything else...
...SUNDAY Catch Kyrgyzstan's national sport, ulak tartysh, at the hippodrome on the west side of town. Teams of riders vie to grab the corpse of a headless goat from the ground at full gallop and heave it into a vat. The big contests are held during the Nooruz Festival (March 21) and Kyrgyz Independence Day (Aug. 31), but smaller events take place at other times...
...robust growth without Beijing's hefty stimulus in part because it is less exposed to the international economy. China's exports represented 35% of GDP compared with only 24% for India in 2008. Thus India was afforded more protection from the worst effects of the financial crisis in the West, while China's government needed to be much more active to replace lost exports to the U.S. More significantly, though, India's domestic economy provides greater cushion from external shocks than China's. Private domestic consumption accounts for 57% of GDP in India compared with only 35% in China. India...