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...real question, though, is why this harder line wasn’t taken before our airmen were allowed to come home. In an incident where the Chinese pilot, not our crew, was to blame, why did the Bushies even take seriously the Chinese demand for an apology from us? Why did it seem that from day one the United States, the most powerful nation in the world, was working from a position of weakness vis-a-vis China...
...understand that a way out required accommodating both sides' sensitivities. So a few carefully chosen words ended a potentially explosive standoff. The dénouement was crafted to exact concessions from both sides but leave each able to claim victory. China yielded on its demand that Washington take full blame and didn't force the U.S. to end its airborne surveillance. The Bush administration used language of regret that earned charges of "national humiliation" from the Republicans' conservative ranks...
...have to be the weakest person in the world. And if I can tell my story, you can," said one student. "I would have nightmares and flashbacks, but in the past several months I have realized that there is nothing wrong with me. The only person to blame is the person who attacks...
...standoff over a hostile incursion that cost the life of a Chinese pilot, Beijing found itself unable to release the U.S. crew without an apology. But although it opted immediately for a diplomatic solution, the U.S. was never going to use the word daoqian, a formal apology that accepts blame - the U.S. believes it did nothing wrong flying a surveillance mission in international airspace, and has no intention of refraining from doing so in the future. In the battle of wills over the wording of the not-quite-apology, Washington wouldn't even go as far as shenbiao qianyi...
Programming problems are to blame for a deluge of emails to Harvard students from the website www.12dateme.com over the past week, and it is not the scam that some students expected...