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...interests of local kingpins were aligned with those of the central government, life might go on much as before. But increasingly they are not, and abuses have transformed China from a straightjacketed but ordered society into another chaotic and corrupt developing country. Across northern China, for example, local officials are ignoring a more forgiving tax code championed by Beijing and instead are forcing peasants to pay exorbitant taxes on land that ceased to be fertile years ago. In other places such as Henan, Fujian and Gansu provinces, local bosses have taken central government funds for combating drugs, human smuggling...
...Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited the province to decide whether to impose harsher measures to end the 26-year insurgency. A U.S. official in the Indonesian capital Jakarta warned that the spiraling violence in Aceh could harm attempts to restore full military ties between the two nations. PAPUA NEW GUINEA Chaotic Two men were shot and then hacked to pieces in continuing violence surrounding the country's elections. Rival tribes went on a rampage in the town of Tari in the Southern Highlands stealing as many as 55 ballot boxes containing up to 50,000 votes, according to officials. Troops were...
...contact worth it? At the time, many didn't think so. In the last years of Yeltsin's rule, he had become an always ailing, often drunk figure at the head of a corrupt state and chaotic economy. Why suck up to such a man? Talbott--a former editor at TIME who was a key policymaker on Russia throughout the Clinton years, ending up as Deputy Secretary of State--makes a convincing case for taking Yeltsin seriously. In his telling, Clinton's Russian policy was motivated above all by realism. Clinton and his team knew that Yeltsin wasn't perfect...
Named for its author, then-Dean of the College John B. Fox `59, the plan was an attempt to impose a logical order on the chaotic housing system that resulted from the “non-merger merger” of Harvard and Radcliffe...
...cheek. Michael mouthed the words "I love you." Skakel Senior said that he did recall driving home from a hunting trip after murder. "The house was full but I don't remember any of the names of the people who were there." In fact, he returned to a chaotic scene of police, reporters and lawyers. He had then instructed live-in tutor Kenneth Littleton to take several of the children, including Michael, then 15, to Windham, New York. But the prosecution's attempts to extract the details of what he did next or if he ever discussed...