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In 1998, I read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged back to back. I admit, I was intrigued. It sounded good, at least on first reading. The story of the titans, men of iron will and vision and ruthless compassion (never sentimental sympathy or pity or... ...full story at Peking Duck

from Peking Duck on Tue, Sep 15 2009

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03 Feb 08 visit China: Programmed By Fellows With Compassion And Vision?  »  China Law Blog A just machine to make big decisions Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision We'll be clean when their work is done We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young Donald Fagan, IGY Could not help but think of the above song after reading Silicon...
18 Oct 09 visit The Tangled China Immigration Web Some Weave  »  China Law Blog A reader sent me a link to a post from the very controversial blog, Atlas Shrugged. The post is entitled, "A Case of Perjury: Mohamed Bary's Vast Web of Lies." The gist of the story is that the Sri Lankan parents of a 17... [[ This is a content summary...
13 Oct 09 visit Back From Holiday.  »  All Roads Well.. welcome back everyone. Hope you all had a good holiday, and enjoyed the show a couple weeks back! Working on getting back into the saddle after nearly 3 weeks on the run. Gotta be honest, getting on the plane back was difficult, but alas Air...
29 Mar 07 visit The Museum of Shanghai Toys  »  Shanghaiist We admit it — we kind of like old wind-up tin toys. We only have one, though. It has ping pong players who go back and forth and it really used to scare our dog. Well, the International Herald Tribune recently published a story ("A trip into China's pas...
29 Nov 07 visit A toss out to the law boys!  »  Zhongnanhai Ok, not to get overly sentimental here, but I feel I have to give a little something back to the guys who helped kindle my interest in putting my pedantic, and often times, pedestrian thoughts on the internet for all...

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