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...Although Hannah Beech's article underscores some important truths about young Chinese athletes, it is also a throwback to cold-war depictions of the Chinese as brainwashed "pawns of the state." When will TIME stop making value judgments and maintain a sense of cultural relativity? I grew up with many athletes in America who, just like the athletes in this article, have neglected higher academics to achieve success in sports. I've not only known but had coaches who are just as tough, if not tougher, than the coaches described in this article. And, oh, yeah - the "propaganda director...
...defense, which will be laid out before the jury in coming days, Darwin is expected to maintain that she was coerced by her husband. The prosecution tried to subvert that claim in advance. "We submit this was a convincing performance and one which obviously required no prompting, let alone coercion, from her husband." Robertson said that the court would see in due course how the couple "worked a complex web of transactions between various bank accounts, making the finances all the more difficult to trace." For Mrs. Darwin's defense to succeed, Mr Robertson said that she must prove that...
...coffee farmer [in Africa]. There was a very bad drought. He was a man who cared very much about the trees, rivers, animals, birds. The drought dried the rivers up and killed the trees. He was absolutely torn up by this drought and had a heart attack. I maintain that if he had stuck it out he would be alive now. The rains came the day after he died...
Defense Department officials expressed exasperation at the latest Russian denunciation of the missile shield that U.S. officials maintain is designed only to protect parts of Europe as well as the United States. "No one's name [in the Russian government] is attached to it," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told TIME shortly after the Russians released their saber-rattling statement. "It's being reported as a foreign ministry statement - and it's got strange wording in it like 'We would be forced to react with military resources' or 'technical means' - what does that mean...
Defense Department officials were exasperated and frustrated as, once again, the Russian government denounced the expansion of the fledgling U.S. missile shield that U.S. officials maintain is designed only to protect parts of Europe as well as the United States. "No one's name [in the Russian government] is attached to it," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told TIME shortly after the Russians released their saber-rattling statement. "It's being reported as a foreign ministry statement - and it's got strange wording in it like 'We would be forced to react with military resources' or 'technical means' - what does that...