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President Hu Jintao appears to have succeeded where every Chinese leader since Chairman Mao has failed: pulling off a leadership transition without purges, midnight arrests or blood in the streets. Although the 61-year-old Hu is already China's President and chief of the Communist Party, until last week he still shared power with his 78-year-old predecessor, Jiang Zemin, who retained his post as chairman of the Central Military Commission...
This year’s cover, set against an intriguing hot pink background with two young co-eds in the foreground, depicts that oh-so-typical midnight Cinderella moment in the Yard. Who hasn’t been there? The electricity of the moment is palpable—so palpable, in fact, that though the students may be able to control their lust, they cannot control their letters and numbers, which embrace in the sky above them in a glowing dance of alphanumeric romance. Though the students’ distance and body language...
...enjoyed my first year at school, but Harvard seemed like an imperfect tool. I learned about public policy and politics; I even participated in my share of campus activism. But I was torn. I liked to party. I liked to make midnight trips to the Kong and play roller hockey in the hallway of my dorm. Harvard offered millions of opportunities to be part of The Movement, and I felt guilty when I turned down one of those opportunities to enjoy the pleasant distractions of college life...
...Delhi villa. When he finally showed up for questioning at a police station in the Punjabi city of Patiala, a mob threw paint at his Mercedes. "It was very scary," says Mehndi. "Like a film story, and Daler Mehndi was Saddam or Osama, moving all the time, always between midnight and 4 a.m. ... People hated...
...midnight fire fight on May 19, which killed one member of Task Force 1/9 and wounded three, was a foreshadowing of even more bold insurgent attacks. On the morning of July 7, a 100-person company of Iraqi National Guardsmen ventured onto Haifa Street to set up checkpoints. Almost immediately, they came under fire from the concrete forest of towering Soviet-style apartment blocks that line the wide, four-lane boulevard. After 50 minutes, Task Force 1/9 headed toward Haifa Street to evacuate the Iraqi troops. As a platoon moved toward a former palace of Saddam Hussein...