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...region by what are presumably separatist fighters in over ten years. In 1997, three bombs exploded on buses in the provincial capital Urumqi, killing nine and injuring 74. During the 1980s, militants routinely targeted police stations, military bases and similar targets, but such attacks stopped in the 1990s as Chinese control of the region solidified and was extended down to the village level, says Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with New York-based Human Rights Watch. Bequelin, who wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the separatist movement in Xinjiang, says the latest attack underscores the "complete failure" of China's heavy...
...what the Bush team came to Washington to do. But what is really surprising about making deals with the opposition? It was reminiscent of the way Bill Clinton had to rely on Republican votes to win passage of a balanced budget measure and free trade measures in the early 1990s...
...fact, what was once one of the world's busiest film industries has been in financial and creative decline for some time. With just 50 homegrown movies hitting the city's cinemas, last year's output was a dismal shadow of the annual 200-plus figures of the early 1990s and a deeply worrying development for an industry whose output has been enjoyed by millions and inspired directors from Quentin Tarantino to Martin Scorsese...
...Paulson, 62, came to the job with a bit of Washington experience, dating to the Nixon White House. He had just spent seven years running Goldman Sachs, the current cream of Wall Street firms (and also the place that prepared Robert Rubin for his successful 1990s tenure at Treasury). But the key to understanding Paulson's approach is that he spent the bulk of his career not as a manager but as an investment banker. What a good investment banker does is build relationships - chiefly with the CEOs of companies whose business he is courting, but also with anybody else...
...details of those spending cuts are mostly, once again, in the sound-bite stage. McCain has promised "comprehensive spending controls," "across-the-board scrutiny" and a bipartisan congressional commission to chop up spending. The goal, says Holtz-Eakin, is to return to the fiscal discipline of the late 1990s, when then President Bill Clinton struck a deal with a Republican Congress to limit spending increases. "People write [new spending] initiatives like they get out of bed these days," says the adviser...