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...story of the inner workings of government,” he said. Gardner argued that though former President Carter is sometimes criticized for weakness in foreign policy—for instance, his handling of the Iranian hostage crisis—certain administration policies, such as its engagement with communist student and labor groups in Italy, eased tensions and created common ground. Gardner discussed his views on current policy after the forum was opened to questions from the audience. “We should have never invaded Iraq,” Gardner said emphatically. “I don?...
...their mouth, while complaining of Chinese behavior on everything from piracy to defense spending from the other. So far, China's main response to U.S. lectures on the need to open up its political system has been to publish a white paper reaffirming the sacred right of the Communist Party to dominate public life...
...SENTENCED. HUANG JINGAO, 53, Communist Party whistleblower who exposed graft in local government; to life in prison on charges of taking $715,000 in bribes; in Fuzhou, China. Huang gained widespread popular support in August 2004, when the People's Daily website posted a letter from him describing corruption in Fujian province. Huang's supporters claim the conviction is part of an effort to discredit...
...play is comprised of three parts. In the first, the old primary communist leaders debate the future of Russia and the world while waiting for a speech to take place. In the second, a bureaucrat attempts to seduce Kat (Catrin M. Lloyd Bollard ’08), the guard at a bizarre storage facility for brains of important Party members, as they discuss the future of Russia and the world. He is rebuffed when her female lover, B (E.A. “Zia” Okocha ’08), shows up. The couple discusses sex, vodka and the future...
Pyongyang is not a key stopover on the business-traveler circuit. There's no cushy InterContinental, and the brutal, hermetic regime that runs the place doesn't lure much foreign investment. But the communist state does see a trickle of capitalists, from telecom engineers to bottled-water vendors. And, perhaps most surprisingly, animators. North Korea has some of the world's cheapest cartoonists, typically specialists in the art of propaganda. In 2001 French-Canadian Guy Delisle went to Pyongyang to manage the production of an animated preschool special for French television. "It was based on children's books with rabbits...