Quickstops (Sep 10, 2005)
My throat is still on the sore side--an aftermath of the flu. From previous experience, it should transit to a bit of a cough soon enough. Looks like it's going to be a busy week ahead making up for lost time. In the meantime, some "quick" and "not so quick" stops that caught my eye over the last few days. (Yes, I am still working on and off on the follow up to this, and the translation to this.)
- 16 years after reunification, the report card for East Germany does not look good (das spiegel)
- How the New Orleans tragedy might lead to changes in the US political landscape (Orlando Sentinel). more: Katrina cover up? (NYTimes) Related (WaPo).
- Sharia law in Ontario, Canada, anyone? (Globeandmail.com)
- "Just because the UN says something is a good thing does not make it so. It probably just means a number of countries have been bribed into taking that position. Keep that in mind next time you hear the UN described as the repository of international legitimacy." (The Australian)
- Closer to home, Xinhua and the People's Daily report on Singapore's First national inter-school blogging competition.
- The really long one: F. Scott Fitzgerald once told his friend Ernest Hemingway that the very rich "are different from you and me." The latter's response: "Yes, they have more money." That, in a nutshell, is the theme animating what is possibly "The Most Popular Forum Post Ever In China" (news article nicely translated into English by EastSouthWestNorth). A condensed version of the original exchange is here (in Chinese). As far as I know, my forebears have been peasants for at least the past 10+ generations, so I would have no idea as to whether there are bottles of French wine worth US$13,000, or whether it takes 10 million US dollars (per year) to maintain a race horse, or whether the "real upper class" would never call San Francisco sanfanshi but always shengfulangxishike, or that they never go there anyway. (Afterthought: not unconnected with this.)
- 16 years after reunification, the report card for East Germany does not look good (das spiegel)
- How the New Orleans tragedy might lead to changes in the US political landscape (Orlando Sentinel). more: Katrina cover up? (NYTimes) Related (WaPo).
- Sharia law in Ontario, Canada, anyone? (Globeandmail.com)
- "Just because the UN says something is a good thing does not make it so. It probably just means a number of countries have been bribed into taking that position. Keep that in mind next time you hear the UN described as the repository of international legitimacy." (The Australian)
- Closer to home, Xinhua and the People's Daily report on Singapore's First national inter-school blogging competition.
- The really long one: F. Scott Fitzgerald once told his friend Ernest Hemingway that the very rich "are different from you and me." The latter's response: "Yes, they have more money." That, in a nutshell, is the theme animating what is possibly "The Most Popular Forum Post Ever In China" (news article nicely translated into English by EastSouthWestNorth). A condensed version of the original exchange is here (in Chinese). As far as I know, my forebears have been peasants for at least the past 10+ generations, so I would have no idea as to whether there are bottles of French wine worth US$13,000, or whether it takes 10 million US dollars (per year) to maintain a race horse, or whether the "real upper class" would never call San Francisco sanfanshi but always shengfulangxishike, or that they never go there anyway. (Afterthought: not unconnected with this.)
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