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...Mulan and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The new Mummy sequel, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, set in the 1940s, is about an undead 2,000-year-old Han emperor (Jet Li) and an army of terra-cotta warriors. The China that appears in American pop culture is about as modern as Arthurian England...
...with rare exceptions, like China's stint as the heavy in the latest season of 24, Hollywood acts as if modern China doesn't exist. Where the Soviet Union was a Hollywood baddie for decades, China lurks unobserved, like dark matter in the universe. Even the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate replaced the Chinese with an evil corporation...
Bill's piece looks at capitalism's ability to make self-interest serve the larger interest, and how companies, in conjunction with government and nongovernmental institutions, can make a profit, enhance their reputations and also improve the lives of those who have not traditionally benefited from modern market forces. Bill cites a variety of examples of how this is already taking place and how governments, foundations and regular folks can support this effort. He's the first to admit that this idea is still at a very early stage, but now that he has retired from...
...cannot change the cards you are dealt," he said, "just how you play the hand." With his child's smile and nimble brain and breathtakingly simple instructions tumbling out one after another, Pausch made the infernally complex machine that is modern life look as if anyone could put it together with the right tools and the right crib sheet. Come on, he seemed to say, you can do this; I have the secrets, and I'm giving them to you--for free...
...Flash-forward four years, and the political dynamic has been turned upside down. Democrat Barack Obama has one of the most remarkable story lines in modern political history: he brands himself as a new, multiracial, principled politician who can change not just the policies of Washington, but the fundamentals of how politics works around the world. "People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time," Obama announced last week, before an impressive European throng...