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...filled with hundreds of fake-stuff-stalls, selling everything from North Face to Abercrombie to Coach to print shirts with lazy translations (one read, “Let’s Do The Dancing Team Beach Volleyball”).After the first week, these pseudo-Western products all begin to fade into the rest of the novelty that is Shanghai. I love that I bought the entire James Bond collection compressed onto three DVDs, but I’ve been trying to find something under the pirated, superficial materialism that has saturated far too much of Shanghai.In my search...
...Crimson racked up 442 yards of total offense, but senior First Team All-Ivy pick Chris Pizzotti will lead the Harvard attack this year with O’Hagan as his backup. It may seem odd for O’Hagan, the sixth-leading passer in Crimson history, to begin the season as a backup, but Pizzotti’s undefeated record as a starter and banner campaign last season earned him the starting...
...freshman year. Then I imagined the brutal beating my GPA would’ve probably received with one more semester of that difficult language, and the regret swiftly—and thankfully—dissipated. But Zakaria’s argument that countries like China and India will begin playing exceedingly significant economic and cultural roles on the world stage still sticks with me. Zakaria, the prominent Newsweek foreign affairs columnist, argues in “The Post-American World” that the United States’ position as sole superpower will, due largely to its arrogant foreign policy...
...John McCain: About 8,000 people may die this year waiting for organ transplants. Do you think the free market should include kidneys? You've said human rights begin at conception. But fertility clinics create excess embryos that are frozen and often discarded, which you've favored using for research. So are some embryos more equal than others...
...What They're Taxing in France: Jean-Louis Borloo, Minister for the Environment, said France will begin taxing nonrecyclable cutlery and plates to entice consumers to buy more eco-friendly products. The so-called picnic tax of 58 per lb. ($1.29 per kg), part of an effort to curtail waste, may be extended to cover other household items like washing machines, refrigerators and televisions. The nation has a similar system in place for cars, whereby heavily polluting vehicles pay steeper taxes...