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Right. So here's the deal: if you were one of the lucky 5,000 people that made it in under the cap, don’t get too cocky – he doesn’t really think you’re friends. Notice that in the post, Mankiw puts friends in quotations. Kind of like how he “teaches” Ec 10. (Just kidding Professor Mankiw. FlyBy actually loved your class, and your book, but our editors make him come up with these crowd-pleasing snark-attacks...
...sloppy handling of nuclear weapons, although their vocal support of the F-22 program angered Gates' inner circle. The new Air Force secretary and chief of staff agree with Gates that 187 F-22s are sufficient and took the unusual step of penning an Op-Ed in the Washington Post to say so. Meanwhile, Michael Wynne, the ousted secretary, was left to grumble in the blogosphere that Gates' blueprint is a "searing indictment of America's capability to design and build modern weapons" that will ultimately weaken the nation...
Spector, Phil • one can only imagine the thoughts going through the head of - "Oh my God, I'm not going to be able to terrorize women with guns for at least 18 years" - during the taking of the post-murder conviction mug shot...
...gone for 20 years, Hu maintains a complicated reputation on the mainland. "Hu is still in a kind of limbo or political purgatory," Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a China scholar at the University of Hong Kong, said this week in an interview published in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. "He is not totally taboo and people can speak about him but at the same time his status remains ambiguous...
...very long after Hu Yaobang's death on April 15 - two years after Deng removed him from the leadership post - that members of this generation of activists gathered together. The meetings started on April 17, when 700 people went to Tiananmen Square. The next day, 1,500 students demonstrated in front of Zhongnanhai, the Chinese leadership compound, and demanded that Hu's political standing - blemished by his removal from power - be rehabilitated. "By the time Hu's funeral came around, 200,000 students had settled in the large public square, a place that would remain the center of activities until...