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From the Los Angeles Times (free registration required): A FORMER FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN once famously said it was the central bank’s job to “take away the punch bowl when the party is warming up.” That’s precisely what Alan Greenspan and his colleagues at the Fed have been doing for more than a year now, as […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Times: The public would be shocked at the work done in Washington by American firms on behalf of overseas interests trying to influence U.S. policy. James Sasser, ambassador to Beijing during the Clinton administration, once said, “The Chinese really don’t do any lobbying. The heavy lifting is done by the American business […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Facing a steady rhythm of violent protests, the Chinese government is showing increased concern about stability, using caution in putting down riots around the country but warning people that violence will not be tolerated. The fallout from a series of demonstrations has been magnified recently because of loosened restrictions on news […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: Chinese authorities say they have identified the virulent disease that appeared in Sichuan province in late June, which has sickened a suspected 212 people so far and killed 38: Streptococcus suis, a bacteria in pigs that very rarely infects human beings. Last week, a team of experts from Hong Kong who assisted […]
Read MoreThe New York Times reviews the exhibit “Female Buddhas” at the Rubin Museum of Art and Bruce Museum: TIBETANS who trekked to the caves and forests of India to absorb Buddhist teachings a thousand years ago discovered female tantric masters, called yogini, practicing esoteric disciplines with bands of female followers. Fierce, independent and strict, yogini […]
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