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...boast of Oval Office privileges, being targeted in his own home by his former patrons was stunning enough. But he could do nothing to stop what happened next. An hour and a half after the police finished searching Chalabi's house, a second contingent of cops burst into a compound several blocks away--an ornate mansion known as China House, which serves as the headquarters of Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (I.N.C.). The Iraqis pointed guns at Chalabi's guards and ordered them to load the police vehicles with the office's computers, documents and files. Outside, a group...
...Bekedam, the World Health Organization's China representative. Wu has turned her attention to a far deadlier plague. The Health Ministry reckons that China has 840,000 HIV-positive citizens, but the nation only recently admitted it had an epidemic. Last December, Wu descended from China's cloistered leadership compound and met one on one with the country's top AIDS activist, a retired country doctor named Gao Yaojie. "Wu Yi said to me, 'Now that everyone else is gone, you can tell me the truth,'" recalls Gao. Rather than bringing disaster, Wu is cleaning one up. --By Hannah Beech
...immediate problem facing the U.S.-led Coalition is the impact on Iraqi hearts and minds of its efforts to suppress the violent challenges in the Sunni Triangle and in the Shiite urban neighborhoods. Wednesday the U.S. bombed the walls of a mosque compound in Fallujah from which insurgents had been firing on Marines. Coalition forces have killed scores of Shiites over the past week in battles in Baghdad and in the south, drawing condemnation even from some of the moderate Shiite clerics serving in the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council...
Strange Tentfellows Muammar Gaddafi was the Saddam Hussein of his day; America's Public Enemy No. 1. Ronald Reagan sent jets to bomb his compound in 1986 after Libyan agents blew up a Berlin disco popular with U.S. soldiers. Gaddafi's regime sold arms to the I.R.A., brought down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, killed an unarmed policewoman with a blast of machine gun fire from its London embassy, and still supports Robert Mugabe's despotism in Zimbabwe. So seeing Tony Blair shake Gaddafi's hand last week in a ceremonial tent near Tripoli was a head-snapping...
...listen to others. The danger of his being perceived as aloof is real, however. Kirby, a famous scholar of Imperial China, should be all too cognizant of the dangers of having University Hall seem like Harvard’s equivalent of Beijing’s Forbidden City: a walled compound, ostensibly in the middle of things, but really isolated and insulated from the real world all around it—a sheltered haven for a tiny elite, penetrable only to their chosen advisors...