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...another book, Regarding the Pain of Others. In fact, re-examining old positions was a lifelong habit. In 1968, after a trip to Hanoi, she produced an essay that struggled to approve the bland totalitarianism of the North Vietnamese leadership. But 14 years later she was announcing that communism was "fascism with a human face," a statement that she had the courage to make before a left-wing crowd. Courage was never a problem for her. In the days right after 9/11 she created an uproar when she wrote in the New Yorker that it was a mistake to call...
Watch the Hands Will oil unite Russia and China in a way that communism never did? Yukos watchers assumed that the Russian oil titan, neutered by massive tax bills and the jailing of its CEO, would end up in the hands of the Russian government. But last week Russia's Energy Minister, Viktor Khristenko, announced that a 20% stake in the new business may be sold to China's state-oil company CNPC...
...take on the country's entrenched communist-era bureaucracy. Coincidentally, his party colors were the same orange that stirred revolution next door in Ukraine. That may have boosted his chances against ex-Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, the left-wing candidate. Crowds greeted his election with cries of "Down with communism!" Basescu, a former sea captain and mayor of Bucharest, is known for a populist style and for cleaning up the capital city. He vowed to maintain a high profile despite the limited powers of his office. "I will be a strong President," he told supporters in Bucharest. "I will turn...
...Imagine what American workers ... are going to say: 'Chinese workers living under communism are allowed to have unions in Wal-Mart stores, but we in America aren...
...some of them trained by the same dissidents who helped coordinate successful electoral revolutions in Serbia and Georgia, rallied volunteers with rock music, puppet shows and free food. Even famed Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa made an appearance, telling the crowd, "I opposed the Soviet Union, and I opposed communism, and I came out victorious. Ukraine has a chance...