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Solzhenitsyn was an icon of freedom to the Western world, but he did not return the esteem it heaped on him. As a man of enormous Christian faith, he regarded the West as spiritually deteriorated, and he sometimes baffled supporters and critics alike with his reactionary criticisms of Western democracy. In a searing speech to Harvard's graduating class of 1978, he observed that "a decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today...
...that run studios and cut distribution, satellite and Internet deals with Beijing, it's a vast market with a growing middle class--and a government touchy about unflattering portrayals. To make the Mummy sequel, filmmakers had to submit scripts to the Chinese state co-producers. Western companies that embrace freedom of information on this side of the Pacific have acceded to Chinese censorship: Microsoft, Yahoo!, even Google--whose slogan, "Don't be evil," turned out not to be valid worldwide...
...just as well that pop culture doesn't want to take on China, given its history of cold war demonization and Charlie Chan caricatures. But the news media covering the Olympics don't have the luxury of ignoring it. Broadcasters have found their access restricted by China, which promised freedom to get the Games but is under scrutiny over Tibet, Darfur and internal human rights. Beijing is keeping Tiananmen Square, site of 1989's democracy protests, off limits to live TV for 18 hours...
Conor Oberst Conor Oberst; available Aug. 5 Folksingers don't lighten up, but they do go on vacation, and an extended jaunt to Mexico seems to have offered Oberst a glimpse of a world without doom. The meandering road anthems (Moab) and beach tunes (Sausalito) capture the mischief and freedom of travel without going all Margaritaville. So your brain is welcome on this journey...
...years in prison, though it's likely to be nearer the 8 to 10 years prosecutors have threatened. He'll fare worse if they can prove he deliberately caused damage. Though Jordan is skeptical of the $700,000 damage bill, "McKinnon's defense that he's a freedom fighter," says Jordan, "who was searching for hidden information that the government was holding back from the people is pretty severely undermined if at the same time he was bringing down or breaking U.S. systems in a way that would constitute an attack...