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...source, in the corridors of power in China. Hu Jintao, who became leader of China's Communist Party half a year ago, now has to manage the country's biggest internal political crisis since the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square. After Beijing's initial efforts to hide the severity of crisis, Hu will have to step nimbly to protect the party's authority--and his career...
...SARS from patients had been loaded into ambulances and driven around until the inspectors left (TIME, April 28). Hannah Beech, our Shanghai bureau chief, discovered evidence of how the disease was spreading through the interior of China, when she overheard meetings at which hospital staff members were instructed to hide the extent of the epidemic. Many others contributed to the extraordinary reporting effort, including Beijing bureau chief Matthew Forney, Shanghai bureau assistant Bu Hua and Neil Gough and Bryan Walsh in Hong Kong...
...Even before he attains such status, he does not hide his contempt many of the others who have. "I deny all marjah, except for Haeri, and I represent the second martyr (meaning his father) and not the Hawza (the supreme religious academy of Iraqi Shi'ism, located in Najaf)." Of the other marjah, he says, "some of them have no followers." He downplays the importance, both political and military, of one of the most senior marjah, Ayatollah Mohammed Sayeed al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and its military wing, the Badr corps...
...Suggest hide-and-go-seek at intimate hours. She’ll lose so badly, that she’ll actually win, and you’ll be the one in the corner crying “Holy Club! Why was I given a wang-nozzle if it’s but a slave to its resting places...
...idea that the presence of those troops showed just how subservient the royal family had become to the U.S. The extremists perceive the Saudi regime as agents of the U.S. and that perception won't change with the withdrawal of U.S. troops. The Saudis won't hide their continued agreements and cooperation with the U.S. and the hard-line fundamentalists will continue to see Americans as dominating Saudi affairs. It may even be worse, because there are now some 250,000 U.S. troops just over the border in Iraq, a bigger footprint than ever, and it was put there with...