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When Dr. Jiang Yanyong blew the whistle, he was confident his country would welcome his candor. In April 2003, shortly after he sent an open letter to the media detailing how the Chinese government was covering up an outbreak of SARS in Beijing, the septuagenarian retired People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.) surgeon told TIME he had no reason to fear punishment for challenging China's official line. He was, after all, high-ranking in the military, a veteran member of the Communist Party and a doctor exercising what he called his "professional responsibility to protect the health of the people...
...killed nearly 800 people worldwide, Jiang's act of conscience helped prevent a global epidemic from spiraling out of control. But in a country where patriotism is often defined as loyalty to one's superiors, his good deed has not gone unpunished. Exacerbating Beijing's irritation, Jiang penned another letter-this one to about 20 senior Chinese leaders-earlier this year denouncing the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. On June 1, while on their way to apply for visas for their annual visit to their daughter in the U.S., Jiang and his wife, Hua Zhongwei, disappeared. Initially, their children were told...
...fluent in French and had served as Washington's liaison with the Marquis de Lafayette and other French aristocrats who had rallied to the Continental Army. The French Revolution immediately struck him as a bloody affair, governed by rigid, Utopian thinking. On Oct. 6, 1789, he wrote a remarkable letter to Lafayette, explaining his "foreboding of ill" about the future course of events in Paris. He cited the "vehement character" of the French people and the "reveries" of their "philosophic politicians," who wished to transform human nature. Hamilton believed that Jefferson while in Paris "drank deeply of the French philosophy...
...LETTER FROM RIYADH...
...which says it has about 350,000 users). But True.com's CEO, Herb Vest, a Dallas entrepreneur with gunslinger instincts, isn't cowering. He fired back two weeks ago with full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal and the Dallas Morning News. The ads reprinted Vest's taunting letter to Diller, in which he denied getting trade secrets from employees and vowed to fight the subpoenas on their behalf. "To get to them," Vest wrote, "you must, first, come through me." Vest told TIME, "It's a fishing expedition, and I'm not going to stand...