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...material that are the designer's daily duty. Instead, the work is mostly theoretical: experimental typography, avant-garde illustration and imaginary commissions. One can, to some degree, condone this editorial policy. Having spent the past few decades preoccupied with either communism, industry or cultural identity, Chinese designers deserve the freedom to simply play with form. But at the same time theirs is a practical art, meant for the unglamorous business of mass communications, and unless we see them excelling in that context, the pieces here can be regarded as nothing more than exercises...
...high enough quality to avoid seeming jejune. As its members mature over the next decade, we will know whether these pages have documented the emergence of the most creative and fortunate establishment of graphic designers China has ever seen, or a marginal group of theoreticians, intoxicated by the freedom denied to their predecessors, clucking over puzzling fonts and byzantine typography. This book doesn't help us decide which, but it does open the debate...
...Morgan Stanley security chief Rick Rescorla may very well be the greatest American hero no one has ever heard of. Rescorla's many friends - from his Army days on - have been advocating a Presidential Medal of Freedom for him. But that has gone nowhere, because to celebrate his achievements and sacrifices on 9/11 calls attention to those - at the Port Authority and elsewhere - who got it all wrong. Steven R. Hansen, Jonesboro, Ariz...
...President Robert Mugabe's internal terrorism does not simply consist of starving and harassing hundreds of thousands of people; it also amounts to the systematic demolition of Zimbabwe's one small hope of democracy. For a brief moment after the elections in late March, it seemed that the former freedom fighter might redeem his dictatorial legacy by acknowledging that the opposition had actually defeated him. But it turns out that the 84-year-old despot was just slow off the mark in beginning the further strangulation of his own nation. The recent order to shut down all international aid groups...
...clear he was also chasing after his own glory. "Because of the sports system, Chinese athletes are tied to the state," he told me. "But I think it's better to be like the West, where athletes are liberated." Back then, Liu had experienced a few elements of freedom: he had no curfew and enjoyed unlimited access to the Internet...