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...down in the trenches. Back then women were few and far between in business, even in America. It was too early and we were not there yet. Things have only started to speed up for the past five to 10 years and now things are changing. (Read TIME's cover story...
China's Triumph I enjoyed reading your cover story on "China's Moment" [Sept. 28]. It's easy to conclude that, in China, free-market principles have proved once again their superiority by looking at the speed and scale of the country's development once liberalizing reforms were made. It's also worth asking how much China's unique authoritarian politics contribute to its impressive and highly competitive economic efficiency. Could this growth model continue for the next 60 years? Timothy Yin, Shanghai...
...campaign on TV and billboards encourages men to be nicer to women with the slogan: "Satisfy Your Wife Emotionally and Protect Your Marriage." Officers at the General Presidency stress that the religious police should help protect women from abuse and violence, and insist they no longer demand that women cover themselves. "Now we just tell people that covering up is the right thing to do," says Bandar al-Mutairi, a Vice and Virtue officer in Riyadh. "Just like when you see someone smoking. You can't take away their cigarette. You just tell them smoking...
...TIME's cover story by Daniel Okrent [Oct. 5]: The violence that has beset Detroit is, sadly, well known, but the utter collapse of the public-school system is just starting to be understood. Nothing captures that collapse better than the video, popular on YouTube, that shows the shocking condition of the building that once housed Detroit's famous Cass Technical High School. Cass Tech meant a lot to me and other graduates for the opportunities it gave us. The old building, abandoned for a newer facility for the school, was a war zone--a ruin of overturned desks, textbooks...
...stopped by for morning prayers with her 9-year-old daughter. "I come here everyday," she says. She recalls an incident many years back when Mother Teresa was sitting on the doorstep of the house, and David approached her for some help, as she had no warm clothes to cover her 2-year-old son. "She took off the blanket that was around her and put it around my son. I get goose pimples just talking about her," she says. (Read TIME's 1975 cover story "Living Saints...