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The Chinese strategy, one expert said, is basically to let Trump bluster and then resume talking with more serious administration officials. NEW YORK - The Chinese were not surprised by President Donald Trump's threats to impose more tariffs on their goods, several experts said Monday - they just assumed it was Trump being Trump. “I am not sure how literally Trump’s threat is being taken in Beijing, but he has articulated essentially the same threat before,” William Hurst, a Northwestern University political science professor and an expert on Chinese politics and legal institutions, wrote in an email to NBC News....

Santa Monica College's Career Island became a target for anti-war demonstrators when the military showed up as equal opportunity employers. "What they ended up doing was turning it into their show, and then some employers didn't get to hire or interview people," said Vicki Rothman, career center faculty leader. "They have a right to free speech, I agree, but legally the Army, the Navy, and whoever else, also has the right to be here. And sure, the students have a right to protest, but they did it in a way that shows the college, the community, and their fellow students...

OK. Just when you think you've heard it all, along come the left-wingers with an even MORE outrageous stunt. Get this... On March 3, 2003, a certain Laura Whitehorn is scheduled to speak for the African and African-American studies program at Duke University in North Carolina. Here's how the university is billing Ms. Whitehorn on their website: "Laura Whitehorn is a revolutionary anti-imperialist who spent over 14 years in federal prison as a political prisoner. An out lesbian, she initiated and worked in HIV peer education and support projects in each of the three federal prisons in which she did...