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...full text of Yasin’s speech can be read online at www.fas.harvard.edu/~yasin/speech.html...
...investigative arm of Congress, and the Bush White House nitpicked over such questions in a 215-page GAO report on allegations of vandalism at the White House by Clinton staffers before the Bush takeover. The report, which took nine months to assemble, includes the 82-page GAO text, followed by a 78-page White House rebuttal and another 53 pages of GAO comment on the White House rebuttal. All this cost far more than the roughly $20,000 in damages--which the GAO was "unable to conclude" was any worse than similar sabotage by previous transition pranksters...
...This is an academic book and possesses scholarly strengths and weaknesses?a few more individual stories and a little more narrative panache would have enlivened the text?but it's a thoroughly researched, impressive and sometimes fascinating piece of work, interwoven with themes that resonate to this day. All those who think large-scale immigration is the end of the world should take a look at what it did for Shanghai. It didn't make a bad city better, but it did make it a whole lot more interesting...
...show?a collection of artifacts and images of 234 years of Eastern trade?has raised hackles among British Chinese activists. A small but well-aimed campaign even convinced the library to tweak the exhibit's panel text to better reflect the dark side of the Company's activities in China. "The Opium Wars marked a turning point in history," says campaign organizer Steve Lau, who runs the Web site www.britishbornchinese.co.uk. "Chinese refer to the next century as the 'hundred years of shame.'" The library seems blindsided by the controversy: it hadn't actually ignored the East India Company's opium...
...full text of Yasin's speech can be read online at www.fas.harvard.edu/~yasin/speech.html...