Weekly Twitter Updates
May 4th, 2009- More and more US prep schools offering Chinese: http://tinyurl.com/conaou #
- Wonder if Dem supermajority via Franken & Specter helped Souter decide to leave NOW? Don’t blame him for not liking DC (nice to VISIT…). #
- Global fin crisis + big increase in supply of college grads = problem. WSJ on PRC college grad glut; http://tinyurl.com/cgyzxo #
- Chinese for subprime: 次贷, as in Amer. subprime crisis 美国次贷危机. The Party explains: http://theory.people.com.cn/GB/49154/49155/6813352.html #
- Head of PRC supreme ct speaks @ conf. on improving cts: http://tinyurl.com/wangshengjun Note he’s also ct’s Party sec; source of many probs? #
- “The people’s judges for the people” not an empty slogan, says Shen Deyong, #2 at China’s Sup. People’s Ct. http://tinyurl.com/dmer9z 希望如此 #
- Full text of 3/2009 PRC Sup. People’s Ct. opinion on improving service 最高人民法院关于进一步加强司法便民工作的若干意见 http://tinyurl.com/cmtbwt #
- There is an association for the senior international officers (SIOs) of universities: http://tinyurl.com/d3wlr7 #
- Writer Damon Runyon’s holographic will annotation was not honored in NY b/c not witnessed. http://tinyurl.com/runyon #
- Excellent piece in South China Morning Post on need for enforcement of PRC’s claimed support for human rights http://tinyurl.com/Jerry-SCMP #
- Barry Diller interview in USA Today. He was @ a conf. in St. Louis, at Wash U where I went to grad school: http://tinyurl.com/bdiller #
- Good New Yorker profile of Obama’s budget nerd: http://tinyurl.com/budgetnerd #
- About to drive an 11th grade Korean student to take an SAT subject test. Slate pointed me to Weekly Std SAT piece: http://tinyurl.com/c6fvay #
- Good NPR story on struggles of “rights lawyers” in China & subjugation of “law” to “Party” in political rhetoric: http://tinyurl.com/dd7bbw #
- Higher ed in pain. Less $ from govt, endwmnts & tuition, yet debts from easy credit era persist. HT @aimeesblog http://bit.ly/12IPqB #
- Knowledge@Wharton on changes in Big Law: UK now allows non-lawyers to own law firms http://tinyurl.com/dknvwg #
- Pithy quote on future, “we are moving to a world of three screens and a cloud”–net access via phone, PC & TV. http://tinyurl.com/crvuns #
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