As more American universities open campuses in China, they’re bending to the country’s censorship rules. Isaac Stone Fish reports from Beijing. (excerpted and adapted) UC Berkeley announced on Nov. 11 that it plans to open a campus in Shanghai. Stanford Center will open in P[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Disasters’
November 5th, 2011 - 12:29 pm § in Misc.
Japan: The French View of Japanese Heroism
from Le Monde Diplomatique Keeping calm and carrying on Like others in Sendai, he’s focusing on dealing with the damage nature has done, not the damage nuclear fission might do, though of course it’s a concern. The situation at Fukushima was almost immediately incorporated into the calm and orde[...]
May 10th, 2011 - 10:03 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Salman Rushdie: perhaps the time has come to declare Pakistan a terrorist state and expel it from the comity of nations.
Are we really supposed to believe that Pakistan didn’t know Osama bin Laden was living there for five years? Salman Rushdie from the Daily Beast, excerpted: Osama bin Laden died on Walpurgisnacht, the night of black sabbaths and bonfires. Not an inappropriate night for the Chief Witch to fall off [...]
May 1st, 2011 - 9:33 am § in Uncategorized
BREAKING NEWS: Saif el Arab.
UPDATE: The reports about the death of Saif el Arab Ghaddafi have confused me. Ghaddafi has had TWO osnse named Saif … one Saif el Arab and on Said el Islam. The dead son, apparently, is the Saif ((sword) of the Arabs, el Saif el Arab. This son has led the exemplary life of a playboy, [&h[...]
April 12th, 2011 - 7:28 am § in Politics
Can Japan Recover?
from VOA Japan’s economic minister says the damage to the country’s economy from last month’s earthquake and tsunami is worse than first thought. Japan had estimated that the damage may total as much as $295 billion, a figure that did not include the cost of possible contamination of food and [...]
Sunday Revelations: Chernobyl Legacy
Photography of sick children in Chernobyl by Paul Fusco. Ed. To be fair, I have no way of knowing whether these kids’ illnesses are due to the Chernobyl meltdown. Whatever the truth , the horror is overwhelming. I wonder whether the cloak of compassion we hear from the Christian right [...]