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Three prominent specialists on Russia--Baird Professor of History Richard E. Pipes, Murrow Professor of Press, Politics and Public Policy Marvin Kalb and Marshall I. Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center--said the triumph of an ultra-nationalist group in the elections has clouded the country's future...
...Khan's agenda -- war and atrocity -- is still pursued, although with less candor about the pleasure involved: some tribal or nationalist rationale ("Greater Serbia!") is proclaimed. Even after the cold war has ended as big-battle war seems to have become extinct -- the Gulf War perhaps a last set piece of tank warfare -- parvenu nations tinker in their basements with homemade nukes. Even more ominous is the global inundation of handy conventional weapons, a planetary democratization of firepower trickling down to Third World villages and the hip pockets of American schoolchildren...
...gray mass of Japanese politicians. At his first press conference in August, Hosokawa stunned his audience by declaring that for Japan, World War II was "a war of aggression, and it was a mistake" -- a statement previous leaders never made so bluntly, partly out of fear of stirring up nationalist constituents. Hosokawa dropped another bombshell at the same press conference when in response to a question he revealed that he would resign if his government didn't pass political-reform bills by the end of the year. Such directness compares favorably with the opacity of politicians like former Prime Minister...
...still live in a nuclear world, in which formerly well-behaved superpower cronies are now grasping for military might; Iraq, China, and North Korea are but a few of the many regimes that seek nuclear weapons. The fall of communism has given way to the rise of nationalist totalitarianism, which can be much more nasty, even if it doesn't threaten immediate apocalypse...
...hours and 40 minutes, the movie's lengthmay put off those viewers who got bored sittingthrough three hours of "Dances With Wolves." andthe film could stand for a little judiciousediting. Incorporating the Japanese occupation,Nationalist regime, Communist Revolution andCultural Revolution into one film will undoubtedlycause some confusion for those unfamiliar withChinese history, but while the history provides apowerful backdrop, the tale is ultimately one ofhuman relationships and betrayal. The scenesportraying Dieyi's opium addiction are the onlytruly annoying sequences of the film, althoughprobably purposely confusing, as the sequencesshift between depicting Dieyi with long, stringyhair to Dieyi as the short-haired...