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...people, to speak out. Asia's talk-radio programs are giving societies reared on authoritarian regimes and schooled more in discipline than dissent a chance to participate in political and social dialogue with newfound confidence. After all, most of Asia's traditional media continue to focus on the ruling ?lite's message, excluding controversial or minority voices. But talk radio is a microphone through which even the smallest voice can be magnified. For Asia's citizens, muzzled for so long, radio's lure is not only the freedom to talk?but to talk back...
...Occasionally, reality does intrude into this TV-inspired and narcotics-fueled never-never-land of Karachi's pampered ?lite. After Islamic terrorists exploded a car bomb outside the U.S. consulate last year, members strolling on the flower-banked lawn at the colonial-era Sind Club nearby found the severed arm of a woman, with lacquered fingernails and bangles, which had been blown over the wall. The woman was one of the 12 fatalities, and 43 others were wounded in the consulate attack. Club president, Hussain Haroon, whose family owns the English-language Dawn newspaper and has been prominent in Karachi...
...rave clubs, which never advertise or display signs and are set back from the street in high-walled compounds beyond the hearing of mullahs or cops looking to shake down a few rich kids. Ecstasy and ketamine are the drugs of choice. Back home in their mansions, the ?lite space out in other ways, too: staring for hours at the TV. "What we have is the satellite television culture," says artist Unvar Shafi Khan. Amin agrees. "It's never about individuality. Women in their 40s say, 'Make me look like Dynasty [a 1980s soap opera],' and their daughters want their...
...Everest's history is the modern world's history, with all its challenges and abuses?and the unparalleled opportunities for human endeavor. To me, it's perfectly fitting that an adventure which began with ?lite climbers is undertaken by a blind guy 50 years later. We cannot step back and close the mountain, for retreat would annihilate the modern age's greatest gift to humanity: the freedom of an individual to choose his own path...
...nation's ?lite universities, once China's breeding grounds for political activity, students have taken the trend toward openness as a sign of creeping liberalization. Young Internet surfers have inundated chat rooms with a new slogan: "Keep it up, Brother Hu." The message echoed calls nearly two decades earlier when students championed the newly promoted reformist leader Deng Xiaoping by chanting en masse, "Hello, Xiaoping." The support of politically active youth helped cement Deng's authority, and students today hope to do the same for Hu. "We need to show our support for Hu Jintao, because if he becomes weak...