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China 2025: Panel III: China's Security Future

RANDALL SCHRIVER:  .  I have the honor of chairing the panel that addresses security issues.  And we have an excellent panel here to help us do that.  I might say, as a chapeau to this, one thing that has really changed in the last 15 years -- I know ...

From MARYANNE KIVLEHAN-WISE, JAMES MULVENON, MARK STOKES AND RANDY SCHRIVER, Council on Foreign Relations,  19 Oct 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Council on Foreign Relations,  Washington Post Company

China's Security Future

RANDALL SCHRIVER: . I have the honor of chairing the panel that addresses security issues. And we have an excellent panel here to help us do that. I might say, as a chapeau to this, one thing that has really changed in the last 15 years -- I know we're ...

From MARYANNE KIVLEHAN-WISE, JAMES C. MULVENON, MARK STOKES AND RANDY SCHRIVER, Council on Foreign Relations,  19 Oct 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Council on Foreign Relations,  Washington Post Company

Free range schooling

There are skeptics. Teri Flemal, whose company helps parents find home teachers, is one of them: "I'm reading e-mail from unschooling parents who think having their kids remodel their house with them is 'school.' I'm sorry, but it's not," Flemal said. " ...

From MARYANN JAMES, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  3 Sep 2009

'Top Chef': Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez!

The four cheftestants roll up on a ginormous plantation. Padma introduces the guest judge, Emeril Legassi (ho hum, but I guess they had no choice in New Orleans), but Carla is focused on the fact that there are only three tables/cooking stations set up. ...

From MARYANN JAMES, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  19 Feb 2009

'Top Chef': Eels and peels, fishes and dishes

And the challenge, appropriately, is a fish filleting tournament. Excuse me while I yawn and Mary gags. First round: Sardines. "It's a wee little fish!" says Carla in a kinda British accent. Funny. Hosea struggles, and Leah seems determined to prove ...

From MARYANN JAMES, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  5 Feb 2009

Farewell

A few weeks ago, I received an e-mail from a 40-something woman who had recently gotten out of a relationship with her long-term girlfriend. She asked about dating in Baltimore for women like her, and encouraged me to return to the blog. I've been back ...

From MARYANN JAMES, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  23 Jan 2009

All's fair in restaurant wars

We open up the show with the cheftestants in the house, and one of them remarking that they are halfway through the show. Dang, only halfway? This has seemed like a loooong season. But perhaps that's because they've gone from Thanksgiving to Christmas ...

From MARYANN JAMES, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  22 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Steven Starr,  Anthony Bourdain,  Toby Young

Presidential connections?

The Obama Express has left the station, and now everyone can focus on the inauguration, and, for some -- finding a mate. Leave it to my buddy, Faraji, who’s earning a master’s degree from MIT and fancies himself hilarious, to analyze the situation this ...

From MARYANN JAMES, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  17 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Love potion #9

Based off his research on prarie voles, one of the few mammals that "share humans’ propensity for monogamy," according to Tierney, researchers found a human connection: Men who produce limited amounts of a certain pleasure hormone, vasopressin, were ...

From MARYANN JAMES, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  15 Jan 2009
Related Topics: George Michael

Kiss and tell

Prudie answered that he wasn't obligated to say something now, but that perhaps his use of the pill -- and discomfort about discussing it -- means that they jumped into bed too soon. As usual, well-played by Dear Prudence, but I think I would want to ...

From MARYANN JAMES, Baltimore Sun Blogs,  13 Jan 2009

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