While in China this summer, I read as much as I could about the country’s “orphan problem.” I particularly loved The Lost Daughters of China, written by Karin Evans, an American adoptive mom of a Chinese baby girl.
Evans’ book overflows with perspectives personal, academic, and literary.
Last week my father remembered an Orthodox classmate from law school who got an interview at a prestigious Baltimore firm that had no Jewish partners or employees. “How’d it go?,” my father asked.
“I had to tell them about September,” he said.
This came up in a discussion, provoked by a lecture in my Ethnic Studies class, [...]
As the 2008 Beijing Olympics loom closer, the perceived threat of open international journalism on the Internet in the eyes of China increases dramatically. Who would have thought that the Chinese government would have been so open to a free accessibility to a unfiltered, unfettered Internet? Apparently the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the governing/planning body [...]