Longtime readers might have noted that I've been super-silent about events in Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, etc. As one reader asked me, "What gives?"

读者们应该会注意到我很长时间以来一直对于在突尼斯、埃及和黎巴嫩等地发生的事件保持了超乎寻常的缄默，有人会问：“为什么？”

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Our Reader Comments of the Week come from a story about Facebook and the possibility that the networking super-site will eventually offer itself as a publicly traded company on Wall Street.

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