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...Winners OZZY OSBOURNE Ex-satanic rocker gets reality show on MTV. Fans may be bummed: he can't rock quite as hard with his new, restrictive hernia truss HU JINTAO Jiang's prot?g? invited to visit Washington by none other than invisible VP Dick Cheney. Of course, he'll actually have to find Cheney first AL GORE The Non-President holds first postelection fund raisers. Gala went well until Gore insisted that everyone call him "Mr. Real President" Losers DONALD RUMSFELD The Pentagon makes plans to spread false information ... then tells us about it. Does that mean they're lying...
...Bush has his own reasons for visiting now, among them trying to meet the man Jiang has picked as his successor. Hu Jintao remains a mystery even to the Chinese public and is an enigma to Washington. The first time most Chinese heard Hu's voice was during a surprise television appearance in May 1999, when demonstrators protested the U.S. bombing of China's embassy. Hu indicated the protests were good but obliquely urged the participants to return home. More recently he helped conceive the party's initiative to make itself more inclusive by allowing capitalists to join...
...Chinese Communist Party Congress all goes to plan, President Jiang Zemin steps aside for current No. 2 Hu Jintao but installs his protégé Zeng Qinghong as vice president...
...glorious," has replaced Mao's aphorisms in the same way that the tabloid Shopper's Guide has supplanted his Little Red Book. But the Chinese are discovering that while getting rich is marvelous, it can also be numbing. Communism and its concordant atheism remain the state religion. Indeed, Hu Jintao, a contender to succeed President Jiang, built his career partly on suppressing Tibetan Buddhist followers of the Dalai Lama and, it is believed, supported the crackdown on Falun Gong, the mystic sect that claims millions of members in China. As a sign of his ascendancy, Hu, a civilian, was elevated...
...reformer who has been in charge of international trade and education. He is a friend of Jiang's and has a reputation as a liberal. But, says a Chinese banker, "unlike some orthodox leaders, he doesn't carry any political baggage." And coming up on the outside is Hu Jintao, 55, the golden boy of the Politburo's inner circle. Also an engineer, Hu is in charge of the party's key organizational department and the promotion of younger members...