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It was raining heavily last week when I visited Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates Japanese who died in the “imperial cause.” But the tour buses still discharged scores of elde...
Updated : 2013.04.15 19:54
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KHARKIV, UKRAINE ― Prison is always a place of mourning. But perhaps learning of Margaret Thatcher’s death in this place is grimly appropriate, because it made me remember the imprisoned society of...
Updated : 2013.04.15 19:54
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As a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama was unsparing in his criticism of President George W. Bush’s anti-terrorism policies. He condemned torture and the infamous detention center at Guantanamo Bay, th...
Updated : 2013.04.15 19:53
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WASHINGTON ― One unlikely benefit of the North Korea crisis is that the world may be getting fed up with the country’s pugnacious young leader, Kim Jong-un. In his belligerent talk of war, Kim appe...
Updated : 2013.04.14 19:39
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The use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and detention centers has broken the bounds of reason and decency. The federal government reported last month that the Immigration and Customs Enforcem...
Updated : 2013.04.14 19:39
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Of all the nightmares Chinese President Xi Jinping figured he would have to face, a resurgent Japan Inc. surely wasn’t among them. A major slowdown in the Chinese economy? Yes. Social instability? A...
Updated : 2013.04.14 19:38
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PRINCETON ― A sense of fairness is universal among humans, but people often differ about exactly what fairness requires in a specific situation. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the debate over ...
Updated : 2013.04.14 19:38
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NEW YORK ― The Indian Supreme Court’s refusal to uphold the patent on Gleevec, the blockbuster cancer drug developed by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, is good news for many of those in In...
Updated : 2013.04.14 19:38
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PARIS ― The left revels in sex scandals involving preachy conservative moralists, but when members of the left get caught up in seedy financial scandals, so perverted and twisted is their relationshi...
Updated : 2013.04.12 21:50
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So far, the much-dreaded “sequester” ― some $85 billion in federal spending cuts between March and September 30 ― hasn’t been evident to most Americans. The dire warnings that had been issued f...
Updated : 2013.04.12 21:50
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North Korea’s recent threats to target South Korean and American cities with atomic destruction have the shrill belligerence of a 6-year-old’s temper tantrum. But while few analysts believe North Kor...
Updated : 2013.04.11 19:52
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WASHINGTON ― People talk about transformational politicians. But watching Margaret Thatcher take down the British class system was an education in how it’s really done. It required the radical visi...
Updated : 2013.04.11 19:51
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Wong Shu Kwai’s hands are calloused from the 15 years he has spent as a dock worker, lashing containers at the world’s third-busiest port. For the past two weeks, though, they have been lying idle, ...
Updated : 2013.04.11 19:50
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It never is wise to discount renewed conflict on the Korean peninsula, despite the latest brinkmanship showing a familiar pattern. If the military moves had happened in Kim Jong-il’s time, there was ...
Updated : 2013.04.11 19:49
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Waste happens. Everybody knows it. Still, it is shocking to admit that we waste an estimated NT$240 billion ($7.98 billion) worth of food each year in Taiwan. Based on the Council of Agriculture’s la...
Updated : 2013.04.11 19:49
