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COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIALS NOW CLAIMING IT’S THEIR RIGHT TO SIGN OFF ON THE LEGITIMACY OF A REINCARNATION OF THE DALAI LAMA. FOX NEWS RADIO’S BILL MARCUS HAS MORERead More →
COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIALS NOW CLAIMING IT’S THEIR RIGHT TO SIGN OFF ON THE LEGITIMACY OF A REINCARNATION OF THE DALAI LAMA. FOX NEWS RADIO’S BILL MARCUS HAS MORERead More →
FOX NEWS RADIO, DEC 14, 2009 – China’s president Hu Jintao and three Central Asian leaders opened a new natural gas line on Monday that will eventually import 40 billion cubic meters of gas to China each year. Fox News Radio’s Bill Marcus has more from Shanghai.Read More →
HONG KONG, MAY 2, 2009 – Hong Kong authorities have tracked down all but 50 of the residents of the Metropark Hotel in the va-va-va-voom Wan Chai distict and given the other 280 Tamiflu.Read More →
One of the most culturally insensitive things I do to Japanese relatives with limited English ability is to ask them to repeat after me.Read More →
The sign in this picture, taken on the set of a movie being shot in China, reads “Caucasian Extras.” Read More →
Part of the problem with announcing new posts for this blog on Facebook is that the responses arrive there too.Read More →
“Acting as W.E.B. DuBois was a different experience of learning English to me. I changed myself from a student taking notes during classes and doing boring grammar exercises to the one who made great effort to search information, and used the information to make up a complete picture of historic figures. “Read More →
It costs 40 cents at the toll booth at the northern-most point on the Taconic State Parkway if you’re heading downstate from Albany and only drove the I-90 spur of the New York State Thruway. Read More →
We jumped all over the Chinese. Our argument was deceit. Theirs was putting their best face forward.Read More →
At last week’s conference of social studies teachers and supervisors from across the state I had a glimpse of “the profession” – depression and dispassion; intellectual frustration; suffocated innovation; struggle with a corrupted, authoritarian form without regard for individual initiative.Read More →
On Thursday I’ll be speaking at the annual conference of state social studies teachers. I wanted to post this information since I planned to refer to the experience in my talk.Read More →
In emerging China persons of African ancestry do not enjoy widespread acceptance. An article that said otherwise prompted me to write.Read More →
I am in Gulfport, Mississippi. Here to do a story for Marketplace on the deadline for Katrina homeless to be out of their trailers and free of state rent subsidies. Read More →
Stewart Parnell, who heads the Peanut Corp. of America, knew there was salmonella in peanuts he sold which killed eight and sickened 600. How is he unlike milk distributors in China who knew their product was poisoned six weeks before they were forced to go public?Read More →
In case you missed it, Chinese CCTV employees Monday celebrated Latern Festival, the 15th or final day of the New Year festivities, in Beijing, by blatantly disregarding a prohibition against setting off fireworks. The result: they set fire to one of their new, though not yet open, 241-room hotels.Read More →
Email to Fred Dicker suggesting topics for radio talk, September, 2005Read More →
They’re concerned about terrorists. Isn’t everyone? I inquire. But I keep that thought to myself. I look under the table, though, just to make sure there aren’t any there and they seem to find that amusing too.Read More →
My opinion is that my writing ALWAYS needs an editor if it’s going to be public. But, if I wait around for someone to show up with the patience to review this stuff, it’ll never get out.Read More →
In China, regardless of what you are doing, there is someone in the background who couldn’t care less.Read More →