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...Censorship is always, of course, the elephant in the back corner of the Chinese newsroom. Certain topics, like Taiwan, Tibet and the Falun Gong, go conspicuously unmentioned. But grand controversies are not the focus of the book. China Ink instead tells the story of the everyday fight to sidestep propaganda and produce a serviceable publication or program. A famous radio host tells of how she convinced a murderer who confessed on air to turn himself in. A magazine writer tells of the story she penned - and of how bad she smelled - after taking a three-day train journey to southern...
...army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, he has done an admirable job of pulling the army out of politics. But the instinct will remain to focus on India as the main threat to Pakistan and to treat religious militants as "assets" for projecting Pakistani power. His challenge will be to recognize that the army helped create the terrorists who are now the country's biggest security risk, and to reverse the ambiguity that has characterized the military's commitment to confronting this menace...
...Republicans are going to want to try to focus this election on me. What I want to do is focus this election on the American people and who can actually deliver for them. There's nothing new about this approach that they are taking. This is the same approach that they took against John Kerry and Al Gore and tried to take against Clinton. And so, as I said, what I think makes the difference this time is people understand this is a big election. We can't afford to keep on doing the same things we've been doing...
...special adviser to the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. "Once the shock of these deaths eases, people won't ask whether we can stand the losses - we obviously can. Nor will it be whether this is a legitimate and important war for global stability - it is. Debate will focus on how we get down to business and map out a way to beat an enemy that is very clearly getting stronger...
...recognize that your magazine caters largely to a U.S. audience, but the over-representation of U.S. athletes in "100 Olympic Athletes to Watch" may mean that some readers do not focus on athletes from other countries who have fascinating stories. Richard Barrett, HONOLULU...