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Second, be humble. True patriotism is not blind to the sins of one’s motherland, but demands a high standard of justice. Therefore, America should issue a sincere mea culpa when it has hurt others either by intention or accident. Admitting one’s own faults lessens hypocrisy, disarms critics and allows others to similarly repent. Moreover, America’s legitimacy in correcting others is stronger if it is first willing to acknowledge and forsake its own sins...
...constantly resembling Cinemax at three in the morning. Well, I learned that it is indeed like that in continental Europe, but the daytime soft-core pornography never crossed the English Channel. Lest we forget, we Americans inherited all our Victorian notions of sexual repression from the motherland...
...many Crimson readers know, the Patriarch of the Russian Church has appealed to have the Lowell House Bells returned to the Motherland. We regret to inform the Patriarch that we are too noisily a-pealing ourselves to pay much attention to his own outrageous appealing. We thank The Crimson for its support of the Lowell House Bells and offer the following “Mini-Epic of the Lowell House Bells” as a token of our appreciation of The Crimson’s eloquent and highly persuasive argument on our behalf (Editorial, “Our House...
...reported to have said the attack was set up by four former government officials, including ex-central bank chairman and former Deputy Prime Minister Khudaiberdy Orazov. All four are émigrés and active members of the anti-Niyazov opposition. Orazov, who is chairman of the Vatan (Motherland) opposition movement, dismisses the alleged attempt as "a filthy provocation" concocted by the regime to smear its opponents. "The years of Niyazov's rule have ruined Turkmenistan," Orazov told TIME. "We don't want him dead. We want him alive to stand trial" for alleged embezzlement and other crimes. Over...
...moments of glory go, Yang Bin's was exceedingly short. The Chinese centimillionaire tapdanced into the international spotlight two weeks ago upon being named Chief Executive of a weird new North Korean free-trade zone. But before you could say "axis of evil," Yang got knee-capped by his motherland. Before dawn on Oct. 4, Chinese police knocked at his residence in Shenyang and summoned him for questioning. Authorities have since filed a "case for criminal activity" against him, according to the official China News Service. The charges are unclear, but Yang, a flower-seed tycoon worth an estimated...