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...Political change lags behind, but if few people are ready to defy the one-party system, sneaking admiration for the freedoms Americans enjoy is more widespread than party leaders imagine. In an effort to remove the dead economic hand of the government, which has kept China poor and backward, the new leadership is unleashing the energy and ambition of 1.2 billion people to fend for themselves. It is like opening the floodgates of a dam. It is the force that makes the China that U.S. President Bill Clinton will see this week a much different place from what...
...means the only offenders. "Although the offer reflects German sensitivity to the image of skinheads in combat boots wreaking havoc abroad, it is also connected with the 2006 World Cup," says TIME Bonn bureau chief Jordan Bonfante. "Germany wants to host that tournament, which makes them bend over backward to show contrition over this hooliganism in case it affects their bid." Because it won't much help Germany's case that the German thugs -- in contrast with their English counterparts -- were reportedly sober and well-organized...
...second wave of that peculiarly English art movement, Pre-Raphaelitism. The man who defined the ideals of pictorial sentiment for an exceedingly pious age; whose angels and Blessed Damozels, Arthurian knights and shrinking, somewhat cataleptic virgins were the very essence of escapist painting. What could this industrious and backward-dreaming fabulist have to say to the 20th century...
...only speculate as to its contents. Perhaps Walsh was fiery, angrily reminding his ball club that their seasons, and for some their careers, were about to come to a screeching halt. A loss to Tulane would be a step backward, a regression on the path to national recognition...
...huge priority for us to integrate browsing technology into Windows. When we talk to consumers and to computer manufacturers, they ask us to make the system simpler. That requires more integration. Preventing us from doing that would be a step backward...