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...messenger to convey policies crafted at higher levels, such as the military. "Everyone seems to think that Yang Jiechi is China's Condi Rice," says Huang, "but he's actually quite low on the totem pole compared with a senior general, to whom he would have to bow and be deferential." Of course, many bureaucracies suffer from communications problems, blurred lines of authority and plain old dumb decisions. But because of its burgeoning importance in helping to manage world affairs, China now has a responsibility to set its house in order. With 900 missiles aimed at Taiwan on China...
...reached at tong@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION: The Nov. 30 news article "Student Hit By Car Near Fogg" incorrectly stated that a Dunster House resident was hit by a car turning left onto Mount Auburn Street from DeWolfe Street. In fact, the car was turning onto Mount Auburn Street from Bow Street...
Among tiny Malaysia's legions of civil servants, few are as implacable as Pahamin Rajab, 54, point man in the struggle against digital counterfeiting. Decked out in his trademark bow tie and cowboy hat, the secretary-general of Malaysia's Trade and Consumer-Affairs Ministry recently led 100 security agents on a morning raid through a downtown shopping mall, seizing illegal music, video and computer-software CDs. At one retail booth, a television monitor was advertising bootlegged wares. "Take the TV," he ordered, pointing with his gold-tipped walking stick. "We will be back day after day until they shut...
...don’t detract from the album. With hip and infectious beats, easily-relatable subject matter, and a Michael-esque singing voice that could make any teenage girl melt, “Exclusive” is bound to be a hit record. It may soon be time to bow to Chris Brown as the newest prince...
...will be enough to stave off the worst consequences. That requires far-sighted political action from the top, starting in the capital of the world's biggest carbon emitter: Washington. Unfortunately, while scattered cities and states across America have begun to move on climate change - Gov. Schwarzenegger, take a bow - the federal government has been more roadblock than revolutionary...