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...Russia until he drops. The only question in the intervening years was, What kind of Russia will that be? And though that's been, in the eyes of many, increasingly obvious, we now have the definitive answer: authoritarian at home, brooking no consequential political opposition, and increasingly aggressive abroad. The Russian war against the small, Caucasus state of Georgia had been frozen in time for the past 16 years (Russian troops last fought in Tbilisi, Georgia's capital, in 1992) until Putin began it in earnest again this past weekend, sending in air strikes far beyond the disputed territory...
...when Ma embarks on his first overseas trip as president on August 12, he will be doing his best not to upset that fragile détente. Trips abroad by Taiwanese leaders are always diplomatically touchy since China does not recognize the island as an independent nation. But Ma is determined to keep his campaign promise of charting a smoother course with the mainland. Unlike his predecessor, Chen Shui-bian, who regularly traveled in a chartered 747, Ma will fly on a commercial airline to the U.S. on his way to attend presidential inaugurations in Paraguay and the Dominican Republic...
BARCELONA, Spain — On the first night of my summer study abroad program, our teaching fellow led 15 jet-lagged Harvard students through the narrow streets of Barcelona’s Old City to a restaurant off La Rambla, the city’s touristy yet iconic nucleus, which slices through the original part of the city. Brought to a long table on the roof deck of the short building, we met our professor and his family. The sun was setting, the wine flowed freely, and it felt like we could have been in the countryside rather than...
...night's maestro was Zhang Yimou, a film director better known abroad for his sweeping epics evoking the hardships of Communist rule. The show fast-forwarded through the glories of ancient Chinese civilization: the invention of gunpowder and movable type, the building of the Great Wall. The overriding message, though delivered, admittedly, with the earnest phraseology of Chinese officialdom, was clear. "Imbued with the finest element of Eastern flavor," stated Liu Qi, the president of the Beijing Organizing Committee, "this grand gala will act as a showcase of a 5,000-year-old civilization...
Some Chinese coaches were lured abroad by lucrative contracts that offered far higher salaries than what they might make as a cog in their homeland's state sports system. Others, though, were motivated by different concerns. James Li, who coaches American runner Lagat, decided to stay abroad in the U.S. in 1989 largely because of the Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protestors. He has trained Lagat for the past 12 years and last year was named coach of the year by the American track and field authority...