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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...party members will gather for a few days of factional maneuvering and backroom deals. New policies will be adopted and new appointments made to the Standing Committee of the Politburo--the nine-member inner Cabinet of China--but so opaque are China's politics that the tea-leaf readers will be busy for years. "Even when you know the names and positions of the new appointments," says a Western diplomat in Beijing who tracks Chinese politics, "you still have to wait for policy changes to be sure what they mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In China, Hu is the Man to See | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...songs, thirteen minutes all together, and the closest thing to a mission statement by the band. They’ve always been aware that song pairs can unlock synergistic power—see 2004’s “Sung Tongs” openers “Leaf House” and “To Catch a Rabbit” for proof—but this album’s “For Reverend Green” and “Fireworks” unlock the band themselves. Avey Tare’s voice dominates here, fluctuating...

Author: By Evan L. Hanlon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Animal Collective | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...Williams-Sonoma Home Round Ribbon iron mirror with a rubbed finish ($595; wshome.com 2 Andrew Gn for Leiber Marlena minaudire ($4,495; judithleiber.com 3 A look from Proenza Schouler's fall 2007 collection 4 Joh. Backhausen & Shne Leaf Pattern pillow designed by Heinz Weingarten, 1912 ($55; neuegalerie.org 5 Bottega Veneta Sfera long black diamond earrings ($37,000; bottegaveneta.com 6 Dior Christal 33-mm watch ($13,995; eluxury.com 7 Bally Cande velvet heel with grosgrain detail ($550; bally.com 8 Roger Vivier Manchette TV enamel cuff with gold buckle details ($350; 212-861-5371) 9 Laura Kirar Collection for Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vienna in Vogue | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...biggest dogs there - for Ottawa has never been shy about asserting ownership to much of the Arctic. In 1907 a Senator claimed a Canada-wide triangle right up to the Pole, and there's still a plaque on Melville Island commemorating that assertion. As a spur to maple-leaf nationalism, it is not just the Russians and Danes that Canadians have to worry about in the Arctic but also their giant neighbor to the south. When Prime Minister Harper declared in August that the "first principle of Arctic sovereignty is use it or lose it," he was directing his message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight for the Top of the World | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...tornado so huge it lookedlike Satan's wide-tip marker obliterated an entire Kansas town with winds over 200 m.p.h. Days later, when President George W. Bush arrived to dispense hugs and sympathy, he found scarcely a roof still on four walls. Not a leaf left clinging to a tree. Lumber scraps lay strewn like hay behind a boisterous hayride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katrina in Kansas | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

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