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October 9, 2009
- Just recently, after reading Amy Tan's The Opposite of Fate, I noted that I had many similarities with one of my favorite authors. We are both Asian women--my daughter even calls Tan's picture on the cover "Mommy." Our husbands both have Italian surnames. We both found our childhood unbearably dull and tried to rebel against conservative parents. We both dislike the pervasiveness of ...
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February 17, 2009
- Last night, the Senate passed the modified version of the Baselines bill. This version, our sources say, is the one "approved" by the Chinese government. Essentially, the bill conveniently excluded the seas and oceans between the Kalayaan Islands and Scarborough shoals under our regime of islands, which, effectively means that we don't own those prime properties. This is the official ...
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