Word: communist
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...wasn’t surprised that I could hardly breathe after a day in Beijing’s legendary smog, or that the smells and sounds of construction were ubiquitous. The grime that seemed to cover every public space was a familiar presence, and so were the utilitarian, communist lines of much of the city’s architecture.Yet with its enormous size, Beijing contains correspondingly intense artistic extremes. I was familiar with the city’s exceptionally beautiful sights as well as its tough exterior.At a few select, walled-off sites—like the Temple of Heaven...
...Nope, it’s not the good ol’ U.S. of A. It’s Luxembourg. And it’s my motherland—in a non-Communist sort of way. Home to all of 480,222 people, this landlocked European wonder eludes the consciousness of the average American. So, in the great Harvardian spirit of enlightenment, here are 50 things you didn’t know about Luxembourg...
...Moravec faces a new ordeal: Recent Czech press reports allege that Anheuser-Busch had been in talks with a close, though unofficial, adviser to the Czech Prime Minister about buying the last major post-communist brewery still in state hands - which also happened to be the Czech namesake of its flagship brand. "The truth is that I would have to quit drinking beer altogether," Moravec grunts at the prospect of a new owner tampering with the Budvar magic. "Better that than to drink some slop...
...ChinaI normalized diplomatic relations with China in 1979. Immediately after that, Deng Xiaoping, who was the premier of China, asked if the Carter Center would help him in the democratization of these little villages-there are about 650,000 of them and they are not part of the Communist party structure. So he and subsequent governments have ordained that those villages can have a democratic election. The Carter Center has had a contract with the government of China now for roughly 10 years to monitor the compliance of those laws in the villages...
While ordinary Chinese are certainly proud to be hosting the Games, there's little doubt about who has the most to gain if the Olympics pass without a hitch. China's Communist Party "only has two sources of legitimacy," says Michael Duke, a professor emeritus of Chinese studies at the University of Vancouver, "nationalism and economics, and the Olympics encapsulate both of them." China's leadership has built up the Olympics as a celebration of the party's administrative competence. Now it wishes to use the Games to confirm China's new international stature and expunge the last vestiges...