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...When the communists were fighting for control of the nation in the 1930s and '40s, they promised democracy, a free press and an independent judicial system. Six decades after they came to power, none of those exist...
...more practical, and because of that I am optimistic about their chances of promoting fundamental change. They aren't ready to march in the streets, but they are equally unwilling to be told what they can or can't read and discuss online. They simply want to be free to live their own lives...
...rights, such as the vote. But the events of the past two decades have laid to rest any notion that the enrichment of a country provides an automatic impulse toward greater liberty. Remember the talk, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, about democracy arriving hand in hand with free markets? As people became economically secure, they would demand better governance, greater freedoms. But that hasn't been the case in Russia, China or Central Asia. People in those places have found a way to disengage from politics while growing (mostly) more comfortable. Consumerism has provided the ultimate anesthetic. Perhaps...
...daughter seeking her father's attention faces steep competition when he's also the leader of the free world. Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice smoked on the White House roof, buried a voodoo doll of the incoming First Lady under the White House lawn, jumped fully clothed into a cruise-ship pool - and persuaded a Congressman to follow. "I can either run the country or I can control Alice," Roosevelt once said. "I cannot possibly do both...
...recorded conversations with the President from 1993 to 2001 - the portrait of the relationship between Bill Clinton, a man who never knew his own father, and his daughter reveals a side we rarely saw on the public stage. Bill Clinton, it turns out, raised a daughter and ran the free world, sometimes in that order...