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Much Of Our National Debate Proceeds As If China And America Were Locked In A Zero-sum Game In Which One's Loss Is Precisely The Other's Gain.

Why Does An Iphone Cost Only A Couple Hundred Dollars? Because, As The Stage Performer Mike Daisey Depicted In An Arresting One-man Show Called 'the Agony And Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs,' Apple's Shiniest Products Are Made By A Shadowy Company In China Called Foxconn.

We All Want Merit To Mean Something, And We All May Be Tempted To Reduce That Meaning To Something Measurable And Concrete Like An Sat Score. The Reality, Though, Is That Who Deserves Entry Into An Institution Depends On What The Institution Exists To Do.

When Bryan Price Taught Me How To Throw A Changeup, He Made Me See Myself. All My Life, I've Been The Equivalent Of A Fastball Pitcher - Trying To Use Blazing Speed And Brute Force To Wow The People Around Me.

You Want To Defend Citizenship? Don't Persecute Or Isolate Those Without Papers. Just Live Like A Citizen. That'd Be A First-class Way To Be American.