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Mon, 19 May 2008- ~Western MBA programs in China
- Here’s an interesting article about the business challenges facing Western business schools trying to make money in China.
- ~Pro-China, pro-America–a video from Fox News
- Here’s an informative interview about the recent events in Tibet and what’s really going on in terms of China’s international relationships, set in what first seemed an odd venue. The Fox News show is called “Happy Hour” and is set in a bar–yes, with shelves of bright whiskey and gin bottles glittering behind the speakers. [...]
- ~First press mention of Berkshire’s China Gold, in connection with the Olympic torch relay
- Talk about mixed metaphor. Here’s the title of an article in yesterday’s Baltimore Sun, quoting Duncan Mackay extensively, and me briefly: “Torch as lightning rod, Olympic attention is magnet for protests.”
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Wed, 19 Nov 2008- ~One of my kids: What the world thinks about America
- It’s not really a kid but instead a website, but this is what came to mind as I was reading through some comments on LoveUSHateUS.com this evening. I’m wondering how it might evolve and what we should do with this wealth of material. If you have grown-up or growing-up children, you’ll know the feeling you [...]
- ~Barack Obama on the importance of books, and libraries
- Thanks to Tim Coates, who writes the widely and wildly read UK Good Library Blog (which we are proud to sponsor and host), I’ve come across a speech given by Barack Obama at the American Library Association’s annual conference in 2005. Here’s an extract: More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents [...]
- ~LoveUSHateUS.com gets new life, post-election
- There’s a new breeze blowing in the United States, and it is not just the chill winds of Wall Street and Detroit. A friend sent a message from a friend of hers in which he describes wanting to hang a flag or hear the song America the Beautiful. That kind of obvious patriotism is generally [...]
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