I've been kept constantly busy this week with managing the Habitat chapter and the demands of school, hence the lack of much posting or commenting, and meaning I won't have a chance to finish my attempt at tackling the nuclear proliferation issue until this weekend (which is fortunately a long one) at the earliest. Right now I have to study Qing Dynasty and Republican-era Chinese history and the New Culture movement and all that fun stuff in time for a midterm on the subject tomorrow. If I'm really clever, maybe I'll be able to spin some sort of a comparison between Islam's confrontation with Western modernity and China's own experience... but let's not get too carried away here.

Also: saw a Hitchcock movie as part of the IR Film Series here at BU last night; the series theme is "foreign correspondants" and this one was entitled, appropriately enough, Foreign Correspondant. An amusing bit of WW II-era pro-US-intervention propaganda, recommended if you're into that sort of thing, and really who isn't?