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...Represents the United States of Dyslexia b) Is Jasper Johns' greatest artistic leap in 40 years c) Was hanging from the balcony on the night Abe Lincoln was killed d) Was Strom Thurmond's swaddling cloth...
...year-old member of the Association for Democracy and People. But history books in Hong Kong have holes you could shoot a Long March missile through. Only a single text refers to the Tiananmen protests of 1989?without mentioning fatalities?and the twin disasters of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution don't seem bad at all. "For the longest time, they didn't cover anything post-1949," says Michael DeGolyer, a professor at Baptist University. Hong Kong's former British rulers didn't want to provoke China; their pro-Beijing successors feel the same...
...memes. It was the Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins who proposed some years ago that, just as genetics has genes, culture must have its own units of transmission, which he called "memes"-ideas of all kinds, images, tunes, games, concepts, movies, books, gestures, all the propagating thoughts that leap from mind to mind and, in our interactive information culture, have become a chaotically boiling universal soup...
...discussion of trade policy is, of course, tinged by the grim knowledge that the 2002 House elections get closer by the day. That fact that tends to weigh down members who might otherwise take a leap in favor of free trade. According to people like James Morgan, chairman of Applied Materials, who is scheduled to meet with the President Wednesday, the public needs to be told that trade is nearly surefire a way to buck up the economy...
...current talks being encouraged by the U.S. involve constitutional changes to accord the Albanian minority greater rights in Macedonia. But having so successfully determined the agenda through their insurgency, it takes a substantial leap of faith (and blindness to the region's recent history) to imagine that the hard men in the hills will simply turn in their Kalashnikovs when the lawyers in Skopje have finessed constitutional changes...