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The "Great Leader" Dies
Outside of China and North Korea, only Fidel Castro, another octogenarian dictator, still reigns with the ultimate power of a charismatic tyrant. With the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba's isolation became complete. Castro has not been grooming a successor as obviously as Kim did, nor does he have...
If North Korea and Cuba both fall, will China be satisfied to rumble on its own, or will it lash out at the world? When Deng dies and Hong Kong is coopted, will it rumble more quickly towards capitalism? The first of the events in the chain has just taken...
During the rectification movement of 1957, when citizens were urged to "let a hundred schools of thought contend," a colleague of Shaolong's innocently implicates him in criticism of their work conditions, and when the official policy reverts back to thought control, Shaolong is banished to a labor camp, later...
Two years later, the 20-year-old Jones, who goes by the name Nas, is breaking through as a rapper. His debut album, Illmatic, captures the ailing community he was raised in -- the random gunplay, the whir of police helicopters, the homeboys hanging out on the corner sipping bottles of...