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The Dispatch: E. Perry Link on China Policy

Professor E. Perry Link, a distinguished scholar of East Asian and China Studies who, until recently, was based at Princeton University and currently teaches at UC Riverside, joins Sebastian Jones for an interview about the challenges academics and universities face in balancing relations with China.  Link also touches upon the recent Summer Olympics and tells the story of how he was blacklisted by the Chinese government, preventing him from entering the country.

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WPRB's Complete Election '08 Coverage

Here’s the full October 23 and October 30 Election Coverage line-up

The McCain Camp

  • Sophie Jin reports on the McCain campaign on and off campus in the Princeton, NJ area:
  • Sebastian Jones talks with Peter Feldman, Regional Communications Director for NY, NJ and PA for the McCain campaign:

The Obama Camp

  • Folasade John reports on the Obama campaign’s efforts in central New Jersey:
  • Leif Johnson talks to Princeton Sociology professor and Obama backer Melissa Harris-Lacewell:

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Campaign Volunteer Pulls a Francisco Nava

By Sebastian Jones- WPRB News

If you’ve tuned into cable news in the past few days, you’ve no doubt heard about how a young woman named Ashley Todd from Texas, who had been in Pittsburgh, PA working for the McCain campaign, claimed she had been assaulted by a “6’4″ black male”, who upon seeing her McCain/Palin bumper-sticker proceeded to scratch out a “B” (for Barack, we must presume) on her cheek.

Turns out she made the whole thing up. KDKA in Pittsburgh reports on what will probably go down as the most flagrant case of race-baiting this election cycle, if not in recent memory:

“Police say a campaign volunteer confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter B in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker; now she’s facing charges.

At a news conference this afternoon, officials said they believe that Ashley Todd’s injuries were self-inflicted.

Todd, 20, of Texas, is now facing charges for filing a false report to police.”

The whole incident is eerily similar to the Francisco Nava affair last December here at Princeton, which wound its way into the national press. From Time: Continue reading →

The Dispatch: Peter H. Stone

Peter H. Stone of the National Journal and author of Heist: Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, His Republican Allies, and the Buying of Washington joins Sebastian Jones to discuss McCain’s lobbyists-turned-advisers.

Peter Stone broke the story of how Christian Ferry, McCain’s deputy chief of staff, worked for a pro-Russian faction in Ukraine’s 2006 election. The full article can be found here.

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