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...soundly and not worry that China will create problems," says Shen Dingli, an expert on international relations at Fudan University in Shanghai, whose comments are typical of Chinese analysts. "In the future, China will be more democratic and will have a stronger legal system, but for now it is inward looking, trying to solve its own problems...
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...them to be more efficient and innovative. In addition, a freer exchange of products and ideas with the rest of Europe will help Spain and Portugal gear up their lagging economies for the 21st century. Said Leal: "For four centuries we have looked at our problems in a very inward way, and now we will be forced to look outward...
These eleven tales blend the domestic pity of Raymond Carver with the macabre comedy and rough justice of Roald Dahl. They nearly all turn, as most of Rendell's novels do, on two inward-looking impulses: revenge and the desire to hide. The characters are conventional middle-class Britons. Their behavior, however, is high gothic. The ironic Loopy, for example, becomes increasingly credible as events move toward the horrific. A middle-aged man, cast as the wolf in a Red Riding Hood playlet, discovers that he likes to wear a furry skin and romp in predatory games. His mother...
Judging by what I saw on a 10-day trip to Iran last month, the strategy has worked. Today young Iranians despair of political change. Resigned to the rule of autocratic mullahs, they have turned inward, settling for the opportunity to make a little more money and have a little more fun. Gone are dreams of Che Guevara and a quick, painless revolution, replaced by the allure of pyramid schemes and cheap trips to India. Although it's too late to buy the love of Iran's youth, the mullahs seem happy to settle for torpor. "You have a situation...