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...through a magical process known as “transubstantiation”—the mystical body of Christ. Marijuana does not enjoy the same totemic status. Largely because of the legacy of the sixties, it is viewed as subversive, the drug of choice for godless, communist, homosexual pornographers. And perhaps there is some truth to this. If the whole word became suddenly and irreversibly stoned, I suspect many irrational pieties would be quickly disposed of. Warfare would be written off as a waste of time; Muslims would give up their prophet; people would probably even stop voting Republican...
...highly critical of France. Are things really that bad? There's a corporate France that's doing very well. There's a labor France that's not doing well, and there's a political France that is on another planet. We have a Communist Party that continues to create problems, even if it isn't very representative. We have a Socialist Party that still dreams of a socialist economy. We have unions that represent just 8% of the workers but who who scare all governments. And we have a right that doesn't dare assume its role. It's surreal...
...original Nixon Doctrine didn't turn out that well either. When American troops left, South Vietnam crumbled. The Shah of Iran, America's bulwark against Soviet meddling in the Persian Gulf, used the threat of communist subversion to establish a dictatorship. A few years later, the ayatullahs were in power...
...elections in China. Beijing had been touting the success of grassroots democracy, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter had lauded the local balloting. But many of the polls were plagued by irregularities, and in Qixia, whence TIME's visitors had come, 57 village chiefs elected in 1999 found local Communist Party secretaries unwilling to hand over power. After two years of trying to wrest power from the old headmen, the 57 quit en masse...
...University's class of 1982-Pomfret shows just how sweeping that transformation was. One of his classmates, who tortured fellow villagers as an 11-year-old Red Guard in the 1960s, ends up as a biochemistry entrepreneur in the business of extracting enzymes from urine. Another rises through the communist ranks by spouting whatever Party line is correct at any given time, thus enjoying a life of chauffeured Audis and plentiful shark's fin soup. Their stories, rife with the contradictions that puzzle China scholars, encapsulate the country's history and pose questions about its present course: will China dominate...