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Super Dan's kryptonite is his temper, which threatens to erupt at any moment. Last year, the Chinese media wrote eyewitness accounts detailing how Lin had decked his coach during training. Although Lin denied that incident took place, it was harder to ignore another public confrontation last January when during...
No one would confuse Hefei Artillery Academy with Peking or Tsinghua universities, the Harvard and MIT of China. Yet parents had to pay about $1,250 in annual tuition plus a $5,400 "special fee" just to get their child into the academy. In a poor province like Anhui, that...
Russia's aggression toward Georgia should not be viewed as an isolated incident. The fact is, Putin and his associates in the Kremlin don't accept the post-Soviet realities. Putin was sincere when he declared some time ago that in his view, the dissolution of the Soviet Union was...
But the Olympics in Hong Kong have not gone off without incident. At the inaugural event on Aug. 9, Christina Chan, a young woman sitting in the front row of the stadium, was smothered by security staff after trying to unveil a banned Tibetan flag she and a friend had...
With no substantive comment from either side after three weeks of negotiation, the progress of power-sharing talks between the leader of the Zimbabwean regime, Robert Mugabe, and his opposition rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, remain a mystery. But some hint of the atmosphere in which they are being conducted emerged Thursday...