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The BBC's Outlook interviews the mixed-race 'Oriental Angel' Lou Jing (mp3). For additional background, this weekend's WP Outlook has a good article.
Apparently the US will send 100,000 students to China. Yay!
(On that note, check out the FACES blog: http://www.thefacesblog.com )
Probably the best article on KSM's trial in NY:
Democracy -- the kind people know in too many other places -- simply means letting the people go to the polls to choose their leaders. But the United States is not just "a democracy"; it's a liberal democracy (that is, one that specifically protects people from government, rather than the other way around) and a constitutional democracy (one in which the precepts and laws are clearly spelled out and binding on everybody from the President to the trash collector).
Our American form of democracy is not about policy but about process: it's about how we make our decisions, under what rules, guided by what principles, committed to what values. The Attorney General has now decided to see whether or not we really believe those words we so casually mouth when we salute the American flag, recite the pledge of allegiance, sing the Star Spangled Banner.
For some context, be careful about who you pick your battles with.
Apparently the US will send 100,000 students to China. Yay!
(On that note, check out the FACES blog: http://www.thefacesblog.com )
Probably the best article on KSM's trial in NY:
Democracy -- the kind people know in too many other places -- simply means letting the people go to the polls to choose their leaders. But the United States is not just "a democracy"; it's a liberal democracy (that is, one that specifically protects people from government, rather than the other way around) and a constitutional democracy (one in which the precepts and laws are clearly spelled out and binding on everybody from the President to the trash collector).
Our American form of democracy is not about policy but about process: it's about how we make our decisions, under what rules, guided by what principles, committed to what values. The Attorney General has now decided to see whether or not we really believe those words we so casually mouth when we salute the American flag, recite the pledge of allegiance, sing the Star Spangled Banner.
For some context, be careful about who you pick your battles with.