Word: communist
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...though the portrait of the painter is accurate enough, as is the depiction of historical events, the story is pure fiction) than it is an elaborate analogy with our own times. This is quite understandable - Forman lost his parents to the Nazi concentration camps and came of age in Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia, and he has long needed to address the issues that shaped his life in a movie...
...prison or receive some other punishment. The authorities were angry with him because of his refusal to acknowledge he was a criminal. Chen was convicted of damaging property and organizing a mob to disturb traffic, charges he denies. The court that sentenced him is controlled by the same Communist Party officials whom he had embarrassed with his revelations about their overzealous enforcement of the one-child policy...
...Conventional wisdom had held that as the Olympics drew closer, conditions would ease for dissidents as Beijing tried to show its best face to the world. But with a year to go before the Games, China's Communist leaders have shown no intention of easing up. "It's a policy of 'soft to the outside, strict within,'" Hu Jia told TIME. He warned, too, that once the Olympics were over, things would really get bad for activists. "I have already been warned by a policeman. He said, 'You are very lively right now aren't you? Just wait. There...
...have to really focus on education," Nilekani says. "That has to happen." Still, Nilekani is sure that the U.S. will find its way in the internationalized economy. "The capacity of the U.S. to constantly reinvent itself," he says, "is really extraordinary." And why not? If inward-looking India and communist China can transform themselves and face the world, so can the U.S. and Europe...
...second fastest-growing economy (after China). Nguyen Thu Phuong, 18, studied for more than a year for the exams, and was poring over a few last-minute math equations on a bench shortly before testing began. Her mother, anxiously fanning the girl as she studied, once fought for the communist side in the Vietnam War and recently retired from a state-run factory, but she dreams of her daughter working in banking or finance. "It's not like the old days," Phuong's mother says. "If children don't have a university degree, it's really difficult...