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...NCAA Fencing Championships, hosted by Rice University in Houston, consisted of a four-day meet with a round robin style tournament including both men and women’s events. Harvard brought a total of ten fencers—five men and five women—to nationals...
Every parent knows the feeling. You let the kids go away to camp, and the next time you see them, they've grown so much that they can look you in the eye. That must have been a little how U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice felt when she arrived in Asia last week. Since Sept. 11, 2001, the focus of U.S. foreign policy has been the arc of crisis within the Islamic world, in which it has fought two wars and toward which it has adopted a revolutionary policy of change through democratization. Along the way, American leaders have...
...trip, Rice gave the impression that the U.S can live with this state of affairs. Indeed, Washington's relations with the three great Asian powers are excellent. From being a cold war near-ally of the Soviet Union, India has turned into a partner of the U.S., one to which Rice said Washington now offered "a decisively broader strategic relationship." Japan, where Rice gave her keynote speech of the week, has become much more than a regional friend. Japan's leaders now discuss with Washington common global objectives from poverty relief to nuclear proliferation. As for China, Rice told journalists...
...That was not, of course, Rice's only message. Wherever she went, she reiterated the Bush Administration's view that freedom and democracy are the essential underpinnings to sustained peace and prosperity. No question where that shaft was aimed. "We believe," she said, "that when China's leaders confront the need to align their political institutions with their increased economic openness, they will look around them in Asia and they will see that freedom works." Perhaps predictably, Xinhua, China's state-owned news agency, mentioned only Rice's complimentary remarks on China and did not refer to her comments...
...because they do not yet quite trust one another that Asian political leaders are so keen that the U.S.?which they all trust, to a greater or lesser degree?maintains a close engagement with them. "The United States," said Rice last week, "is positioned to play a particularly constructive role in a region that is changing dramatically." Asians prayed that she meant...