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...physical and financial assistance. China now has over 2,100 peacekeeping personnel deployed in about a dozen nations worldwide - more than any other member of the U.N. Security Council. This is one tangible expression of China's strong commitment to the U.N. Today, indeed, the PRC may be the greatest advocate of the U.N. among the major powers. (Read "China Takes on the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China at 60: The Road to Prosperity | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...Asia. The air around you suddenly thickens. The sky blackens and crackles with lightning. Then comes the rain, humbling in its ferocity, crashing earthward as a near-solid wall of water. I live in Bangkok, where the monsoon is now reaching a crescendo, and every day I watch the greatest show on earth through my office window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treading Water | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...Digest” of his oeuvre. For the director and cast, it’s simultaneously a simple, bountiful musical buffet and a complicated structural feat. The show, Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s first production of the semester, amounts to much more than the gaudy, corporate-mandated greatest hits parade it could have devolved into. Cast member Adam M. Lathram ’10 notes Sondheim’s creative control in praising the show’s structure: “What’s interesting is that the songs are all very different, unique, and identifiable...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Musical Puts Hit Songs Together | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...life is fair, then the International Olympic Committee will next week declare that Brazil has been chosen to host the 2016 Summer Olympics and thus become the first South American nation to win one of sports' greatest honors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rio's Olympics Quest: Can It Handle the 2016 Games? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...because the resolve of others remains in question. The British and French leaders were adamant in their support, with Sarkozy warning that "if by December there is not an in-depth change by the Iranian leaders," tough new sanctions would be applied. Brown called the new development the greatest challenge facing the international community. But Germany, which has recently shown reticence to expand sanctions without approval from the entire European Union, was inexplicably absent from the event. Obama was left to explain that Chancellor Angela Merkel had a more pressing engagement. More important, after hinting in recent days that Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahmadinejad Rejects Obama's Nuclear Warning | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

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