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Choppy Seas Re "The Sea Witch" [March 22]: I find it ironic that among the accusations against Captain Holly Graf is that she used "salty" language. Does the phrase swears like a sailor apply only to nonmilitary mariners? Richard Baker, CORNWALL ON HUDSON...
...Choppy Seas Re "The Sea Witch" [March 22]: I find it ironic that among the accusations against Captain Holly Graf is that she used "salty" language. Does the phrase swears like a sailor apply only to nonmilitary mariners? Richard Baker Cornwall On Hudson...
...Little wonder, then, to find most Chinese still very alive to sensations of weakness, whether inside or outside the country. This was surely the worry that the Chinese media fingered when they declared that the 2009 phrase of the year was beishidai, or "the passive-voice era." The phrase, state-run Xinhua news later explained, "is being employed by Chinese to express a sentiment deeper than just the passive voice: they are using it to convey a sense of helplessness in deciding one's own fate." There's a sharp edge to this phrase's popularity, since it was first...
...Being done to. The phrase touches painfully on China's sense of worry on the global stage. And perhaps it also explains one of the most popular Internet stories of 2009 in China, about a young waitress who knifed a party official who tried to force himself on her. Here, Web surfers noted, was someone at least doing something back. China seems at times to have an instinctive need to stand up for itself that stretches beyond what cold reason might suggest. The term Chinese use to describe the desire to wash away a sense of national humiliation is xuechi...
...working with China in a way that can protect our interests is less about direct confrontation of the sort we remember from the Cold War - when the U.S. knew it faced a very dangerous enemy - and more about what we might call co-evolution. The phrase comes from biology and describes how some species work together to become stronger over time. A textbook example is the hummingbird and certain flowers, which, scientists have found, have evolved together to serve each other's mutual needs. Think of the long beaks on the birds and the narrow funnels on the flowers...