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Daniel Kadlec is TIME's Wall Street columnist. Reach him at kadlec@time.com
...America, died on the 4th of July. The 62-year-old former host of "On the Road with Charles Kuralt" and "CBS Sunday Morning" died at New York Hospital from complications from lupus. Kuralt joined CBS News in 1957 as a writer after working as a reporter and columnist for the Charlotte (N.C.) News. He quickly rose to prominence at the network, with one of his bosses describing him as "the next Ed Murrow." The self-deprecating Kuralt dismissed such praise as "ridiculous." Kuralt left hard news in 1967 to launch "On the Road." The three month trial...
...handing over Kansi to the Americans without following typical extradition procedures; in the suspect's hometown of Quetta a steady stream of well-wishers have come to the Kansi family home to express anger over the matter. "Kansi is a local hero," says Syed Talat Hussain, a newspaper columnist. "People praise him for the audacity of his crime. He took on the most dreaded intelligence agency in the world, and that gave him instant popularity." By contrast, in Washington there is only exultation. Kansi, who made incriminating statements on the plane ride to the U.S., is being held without bail...
...opinions boil down to basic attitudes: you're either an optimist or a pessimist. Optimists start from the premise that it is so much in Beijing's interest to make Hong Kong work that it is bound to keep its promises. As Frank Ching, senior editor and columnist for the Far Eastern Economic Review, writes, "China did not spend two years negotiating the Joint Declaration, five years drafting the Basic Law...with the idea that it would tear them up on July 1." Optimists are confident that Hong Kong can remain a fair and open place to live and work...
...arrested under Beijing's new mandates, but that's a risk they're willing to take to connect Hong Kong's 500,000 Internet users with the rest of the world. So, too, apparently are the producers of other controversial web sites, such as The Apple Daily, whose columnist and self-professed pimp "Fat Dragon" routinely ridicules Chinese politicians. Other web producers are lying low, fearful of the consequences. In January, Ming Pao Daily News reporter Xi Yang was released after spending nearly three years in prison for reporting on China's interest rate fluctuations, or "stealing state secrets" according...