CHINA SYNDROME
China Syndrome In the propaganda of the U.S.China Business Council, American companies making deals with Beijing are front-line soldiers of freedom—educating the Chinese on modern market practices...
...Does semantic up-to-dateness now decree that persons with disabilities no longer be identified by any epithet at all, but referred to reverently as "persons with...
...Or fax us at (202) 293-4901...
...Next came the White House Correspondents Association dinner, where nearby guests were left agog as Ingraham stole the momentarily empty chair of pundit John McLaughlin's fiancee—the better to chat up actor Robert De Niro...
...Since then, despite griping and threats from the NEA's conservative congressional opponents, no one has been looking at the books...
...Great Moments in Affirmative Action Here is a verbatim description from a vacancy announcement at the Library of Congress soliciting applications for the position of Specialist in Social and Information Sciences and Coordinator of Review (Social Science Research Coordinator): "The Library of Congress is an equal opportunity employer...
...All the stuff will be screened," he says...
...Prodigy has a new Internet service agreement with the Chinese...
...She is "the new postmodern political commentator for the post-Cold War...
...We want to be good citizens, we don't want the government to come round and spank us...
...And Prodigy chairman Greg Carr is eager to accommodate those ideas...
...And the Boeing Company, leader of Washington's pro-China business lobby, wishes we would...
...Boeing's trying to move some product...
...And ignoring guidelines set by OMB, 53 percent of the grantees failed to have independent auditors check their books...
...Clinton wasn't the only one to misuse Tocqueville in connection with the event...
...All technical elements of the new service will be controlled by the staff of Norinco, China's largest state-owned arms manufacturer, which is Prodigy's partner in the deal...
...But that would imply that women and minorities fall into a different category from persons who meet eligibility requirements...
...But hey, nobody's perfect...
...But Mrs...
...Was disabilities inadvertently dropped...
...online computer company Prodigy, for example...
...That peerlessly perceptive admirer of America was highly suspicious of even well-intentioned government involvement in civil life...
...Audit the NEA_ For all that the National Endowment for the Arts has made headlines over the last decade with its grants underwriting pornographic photos and scatological "performance art," the agency has been astonishingly under-supervised by Congress...
...Seems Ingraham and De Niro hooked up (casually) the day after the correspondents dinner and flew to New York on his private jet...
...So does Airbus Industrie of France, which voted against the resolution...
...In a signed piece about the summit in the April 27 issue of Parade, chairman Colin Powell quoted Tocqueville, to this effect: "America is great because she is good...
...Or maybe the with was inadvertently inserted...
...Please send your resume to: Business Manager, The Weekly Standard, 1150 17th Street, NW, Suite 505, Washington, DC 20036...
...Sure, we could get along even better, like the French do...
...resolution in Geneva condemning Chinese human rights practices...
...Back on planet Earth, where actual deals—not fantasies—get written, things are a little different...
...First came that nasty hit-piece profile in Vanity Fair...
...He would've hated the summit...
...In the New York Times last week, Boeing vice president Larry Dickenson made this prediction: When French president Jacques Chirac "arrives in Beijing in a few weeks, I am sure that he will be rewarded" for France's solidarity with China in Geneva...
...Laura Ingraham, according to Zavarzadeh, is a "young, smart, image-savvy" political analyst "who can cut against the nationalist conservative cliches of Brinkley-Will-Novak...
...That's too bad, considering the suggestive reports from the NEA's own inspector general...
...After that came an item— planted by Ingraham herself—in the Washington Post gossip column, "The Reliable Source...
...Ingrahamania Sometime McLaughlin Group panelist and CBS and MSNBC commentator Laura Ingraham continues to mesmerize the chattering class...
...fume Boeing officials...
...A lot less...
...As always in the avant-garde precincts of human-resources-speak, the interpretive possibilities are diverse, and should be embraced in all their diversity...
...As our contributor John J. Pitney, Jr., of Claremont McKenna College has pointed out—more than once—this famous "Tocqueville" quote is bogus...
...So they plan to "block as much as we have to to keep our friends happy...
...Sigh...
...And we're trying to run a pro-capitalist magazine...
...Help Wanted_ The Weekly Standard has a position available for a circulation manager, who will report to the circulation director...
...Norinco has very particular ideas about what stuff is appropriate for Chinese people to read on their computer terminals...
...If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great...
...She is also "the voice of transnational postmodern fascism," of course...
...Political Affairs, incidentally, is the bimonthly "theoretical journal" of the Communist Party USA...
...What's wrong with this sentence (besides the moral offensiveness of the government favoritism that everyone now takes for granted...
...Take the U.S...
...Candidates must have several years' experience in circulation planning, budgeting, subscription fulfillment, ABC regs, source management, and direct marketing...
...If the NEA can't keep better track of the $99 million or so it gets from taxpayers now, maybe it should be getting less money...
...Now, by fax-machine samizdat around Washington, comes press criticism by one Mas'ud Zavarzadeh in Political Affairs...
...Fake Tocqueville Lives!_ Hillary Clinton, in a speech at last week's Philadelphia "summit" on voluntarism, explicitly invoked Alexis de Tocqueville in support of the event's spirit of bossy do-goodism...
...Boeing sells airplanes to Beijing...
...Well, actually, current Prodigy employees won't be offering Chinese subscribers anything...
...Hang human rights, in other words...
...Boeing is bitterly unhappy that the United States last month half-heartedly sponsored a U.N...
...Don't our diplomats understand how the world works...
...And that was by the NEA's best congressional friend, Democrat Sidney Yates of Illinois, who downplayed the (highly critical) report, saying, "It isn't what I intended...
...Isn't that nice, everybody getting along like this...
...It'll be called Shanghai Prodigy Telecommunications, and it'll offer Chinese subscribers online shopping and price quotes from the Shanghai stock exchange...
...These guys are making it awfully difficult...
...At a briefing on the NEA earlier this month, staff of the House education committee's oversight subcommittee pointed out that during the NEA's 32-year history, its administrative practices have undergone a thorough oversight investigation only once, in 1979...
...In its semi-annual report to the Congress, the inspector general showed that between 1991 and 1996, 79 percent of the NEA's grant recipients did not record their costs adequately, and 63 percent could not reconcile their costs with their accounting records...
...China Syndrome In the propaganda of the U.S.China Business Council, American companies making deals with Beijing are front-line soldiers of freedom—educating the Chinese on modern market practices and the rule of law that undergirds them...
...Women, minorities, and persons with who meet eligibility requirements are strongly encouraged to apply...
Vol. 2 • May 1997 • No. 34
