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...think Hu Jintao will put cross-Strait interests first because that serves Beijing's long-term strategic benefit," says Yang. "On the diplomatic front, I think Beijing will try their best not to upset the Taiwanese and send the wrong message." Indeed, unlike Chen's U.S. visit, which drew strident condemnations from China, Ma's overseas trip has thus far generated only muted reaction...
...fact, it has been a sad few weeks. It's often said that the world's largest democracy is also one of its messiest. But even India's jaded electorate, which is accustomed to political scandals, was stunned by the blatant horse-trading and strident mudslinging that led up to the confidence vote, which determined whether Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Congress Party - led coalition would remain in power. The administration won by a 275-256 margin, with 10 abstentions, ensuring its survival for now. But in the run-up to the vote, including two days of acrimonious parliamentary...
...many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers. I find that an old friend of mine in the city, once a strident atheist and rationalist, is getting absorbed in Jewish mysticism; he tells me approvingly that his wife has rejected "Western" medicine and now goes to a medicine man in Chinatown for roots and crystals...
...Israel as a Jewish state.” After presenting his own view of the Nakba and related history, Dershowitz answered questions, saying he would only take up questions from audience members who disagreed with him. Some of the questions took a more personal, and more strident, tone. Robin Zahran, of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School, said Dershowitz was “as anti-Jew and anti-Israel as they come.” “You promote nothing but hate, you misconstrue reality,” said Zahran...
...what her precise role would be. Summers spoke at the commissioning ceremony each year as Harvard president in an effort to show support for students participating in ROTC. Harvard has had a fractious relationship with ROTC since its removal from campus in 1969 in the wake of strident anti-war protests. ROTC remains banished due to the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which Harvard considers discriminatory, and is not deemed an official Harvard organization. Harvard students involved with ROTC conduct their exercises with a battalion...