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People have said that this week’s NY Philharmonic performance in Pyongyang, North Korea was a sort of modern day Ping-Pong diplomacy. Yet, what you may not have heard about the recent concert was that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was the group’s pianist.
Secretary Rice is widely known to be a world-class, classically-trained pianist. What [...]

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So I’m back on Tianya, a Chinese message board, and I’m broadening my horizons. When I found a post entitled “What would the world be like if there were no America?” I of course had to check it out. (I should mention that I was turned on to the Tianya channel by a [...]

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