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...That was a huge statement,” Reeves says. “In Khartoum, it went off like a bomb....The first company to leave will put enormous pressure on all the others...
...food program, a demonic bargain to make China a military superpower even at the cost of its own citizens' lives. "Half of China may well have to die," Mao said of this deal to his inner circle in 1958, according to Party documents. China's acquisition of the atom bomb, the authors calculate, "caused 100 times as many deaths as the ones dropped by the U.S. on Japan...
...Tiananmen Square, long lines of visitors creep past his preserved corpse nearby, and restaurants are decorated with Mao memorabilia. Perhaps in a time of galloping economic modernization and social upheaval, Chinese crave the reassuring continuity provided by a larger-than-life figure from their recent past. Reading this atom bomb of a book, in the unlikely event it gets published in China, would surely cure them of that...
...successful presidential election and a quiet winter had aroused hopes that the insurgency in Afghanistan might finally be waning. But that was until a recent upsurge in violence was punctuated by a suicide bombing last week that killed 20 people, including Kabul's chief of police, during a funeral procession at the Abdul Rab Akhundzada Mosque in Kandahar. The horrific attack was notable not only for its death toll: the funeral was for Maulavi Abdul Fayaz, a prominent anti-Taliban cleric murdered by suspected Taliban gunmen days earlier, and the bomb?a mixture of explosives and ball bearings?was more...
...Ghosh's report brought into focus the sheer horror of daily life in Baghdad. For those like me who have become almost inured to the TV images of the aftermath of daily bomb attacks, Ghosh's article surely was journalism at its best: sharply etched, unsentimental. Articles like his are crucial in aiding our understanding of what actually goes on in Baghdad. You should have put the heroic doctors and nurses of the Baghdad ER on your cover. Sara Kozak New York City...