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PARIS ― Hardly a day goes by without America-bashers accusing the U.S. of “imperialism” or “interventionism.” Meanwhile, China is largely exempt from that sort of criticism from the same crowd. If only they’d listen to the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and a few other stray...
Updated : 2013.05.16 20:06
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PRINCETON ― What began in Syria as a revolt against an oppressive regime has evolved into a sectarian civil war and, more recently, into a proxy conflict. In the process, the struggle has become incr...
Updated : 2013.05.16 20:06
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The title of a book by the late American sinologist Benjamin I. Schwartz, “In Search of Wealth and Power,” rather accurately sums up the preoccupation of generations of Chinese intellectuals, reformers and revolutionaries in modern times. These men and women, with varying degree of succe...
Updated : 2013.05.16 20:04
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Liu Tienan, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planner, is under investigation for suspected “grave violations of discipline,” China’s top anti-graft authority has revealed on its website.The investigation of Liu, who was also director o...
Updated : 2013.05.16 20:04
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Racial and class divisions in Malaysia, shown up so vividly in the parliamentary and state elections, will surely hamper the nation’s progress, despite bountiful endowments and the enterprise of its people. Courage to acknowledge that and the political will to make necessary adjustments t...
Updated : 2013.05.16 20:03
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Electing public officials is the most important act of any citizen in any democracy. Here we choose people who will have the power to make decisions that bind all of us. If we try to do it rationally,...
Updated : 2013.05.16 20:00
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“A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al-Qaida is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.” ― President Barack Obama to the Democratic National Convention, Sept. 6, 2012.Five nights after that speech, scores of attackers struck an ill-secured compound in the Libyan c...
Updated : 2013.05.15 20:26
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WASHINGTON ― At a time when Congress can’t pass a budget and the president can’t win approval of any important legislation, the public is indignant about the threat of an overreaching, all-powerful...
Updated : 2013.05.15 20:26
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The Yoon Chang-jung scandal, no matter how it may finally be settled with the ex-presidential press secretary recouping any little bit of his crumbled honor, will go down as the worst incident in the ...
Updated : 2013.05.15 20:24
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Republicans in Congress are so hungry for scalps, they just can’t leave well enough alone. The scandal engulfing the Internal Revenue Service is a story that’s playing to their benefit. Yesterday, after having the weekend to think about it, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida puffed himself up a...
Updated : 2013.05.15 20:23
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It sounds like a Bond villain’s idle fantasy. An enchanted machine that can produce any instrument of criminality you can think of: weapons, money, illicit keys, magical pills. Three-dimensional printers, as it happens, may soon be able to produce all this ― if they aren’t doing so alre...
Updated : 2013.05.15 20:23
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The smile on Kazuo Hirai’s face shows why the yen’s drop below 100-to-the-dollar is as much a curse for Japan as a blessing. The Sony Corp. chief executive officer is beaming because his company has produced its first profit in years. Did the troubled giant that redefined consumer electr...
Updated : 2013.05.14 20:02
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A tight race to select a new director-general of the WTO has just been completed. Roberto Azevedo, current Brazilian ambassador to the WTO, has been tapped to succeed Pascal Lamy to lead the global tr...
Updated : 2013.05.14 20:02
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NEW DELHI ― The overwhelming victory of the Indian National Congress in elections in the important southern state of Karnataka in early May has shaken up the country’s political scene. India’s troubled ruling party had appeared headed downhill in the build-up to the next general electio...
Updated : 2013.05.14 20:01
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Should the government require companies to label food that contains genetically modified organisms? Last November, California voters rejected a ballot initiative that would require such labeling, but bills that would do so were recently introduced in both the U.S. House and Senate. Invokin...
Updated : 2013.05.14 20:01
