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...enjoyed your well-thought-out report "Welcome to the Wild East" ((ESSAY, April 11)). Since 1937, I have been doing business in the Far East and Southeast Asia. China was a relatively free country before World War II, until < the Japanese and then in 1949 the communists gained power. China's rulers have recognized the advantages of capitalism and with that realization comes a modicum of freedom. China, Vietnam and even Singapore still have authoritarian rule to some extent. The transition to a system of full freedom, as we know it, will take generations to achieve and will...
...photo essay captures the first all-race election...
Today's music is more anarchic -- a rap on the thick skull of an oppressive society -- and the street mood is rancid, desperate. It makes one wonder if Ellison's message ever got through to the larger public. As he declared in his 1963 essay "The World and the Jug," he wrote not from a belief that blacks can only suffer and rage, but from "an American Negro tradition which teaches one to deflect racial provocation and to master and contain pain. It is a tradition which abhors as obscene any trading on one's own anguish for gain...
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