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...real political reform, the early signs are hardly encouraging. Hu, for example, has strengthened a secretive institution that Zhao had tried to abolish. From the national level all the way down to the smallest rural township, the Party maintains "politics and law committees" to coordinate law enforcement and instruct judges on court decisions. Only a month after taking charge of the Party in 2002, Hu inserted the head of China's national police force, Zhou Yongkang, as vice chairman of the Central Commission of Political Science and Law?the country's highest-level politics and law committee. Zhou outranks other...
...betters religious and??secular??like instruct us on the virtues of universal brotherhood. But it is hard enough to overcome selfishness; harder still to overcome ties of family and tribe and nation. How are we to feel for all humanity...
...that curcumin could be for Alzheimer's what aspirin has become for heart disease: a simple, safe and affordable preventative. New Delhi-based restaurant consultant J. Inder Singh Kalra, who has touted the holistic value of Indian food on his TV cooking show for years, hopes such news will instruct younger Indians, who have been turning to unhealthy Western food. "It's the great tragedy of this country," says Kalra, "that we won't value our own culture unless it comes back to us from the West...
...Most important, perhaps, are efforts to attract new blood. Wong in September opened a special box at Sha Tin featuring Mandarin-speaking announcers and staff to woo the millions of mainland-Chinese tourists flooding the territory. The club employs "ambassadors" at the tracks to instruct newcomers on the betting process. Next up: Wong is considering a year-round racing schedule. "If we want to stay alive, we have to invent," he says...
Sure, it's only a movie, but there's the possibility that Team America could do for the right what Jon Stewart and Michael Moore have done for the left: instruct and energize through japish humor...