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...Capitalism is more important than democracy now, and that's just fine with the government. But with critics in the West watching closer than ever for signs of a China they can hate, official Beijing is on edge. In one of the rare allusions to the anniversary by Chinese officialdom, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao warned about the West's "anti-China propaganda." "In the political turmoil which took place in 1989, some of the anti-Chinese forces played an inglorious role. They did not have their way, and they will not have their way now." At a time...
From the field, there are stories by the New York Times' David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan that peel away the optimism of American officialdom. Or read the devastating comparison by the Washington Post's Richard Harwood of inflated, official battle reports against the accounts of correspondents on the scene to understand the origins of the "credibility...
...growth of Vegas began, totally unregulated, all but unzoned, producing a monotonous checkerboard of shopping centers, low-rise apartment buildings, trailer parks and (of late) fenced and gated pseudo communities--with, in the middle, the glitz palaces devoted to gambling, or, as Nevada officialdom prefers to call it, "gaming," which sounds a little tonier...
Will a stronger dose of religion cure Pakistan's ills? Many of Nawaz Sharif's countrymen think it could send Pakistan into terminal decline. According to the well-respected Karachi newspaper Dawn, people "just want a little improvement in their lives from the tyranny and callousness of Pakistani officialdom." Political opponents, including, of course, ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, say the new Islamic bill is likely to increase that tyranny. One interpretation holds that this amendment will anoint Nawaz Sharif as a religious dictator, a supreme arbiter of what is considered good and evil under Islam. Nawaz Sharif, though, contends...
...authorities wrestle with how best to remove and treat the poisons before they reach the danger level, some residents are promoting a new twist on their old livelihood: mining the Berkeley lake. There is growing talk by both local residents and officialdom (scientists and bureaucrats) of seeking to extract perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of zinc, copper, magnesium and other minerals that lie dissolved in the waters. The alternative--a plan to clean the waters with a standard lime-precipitation technique--has its own problems: critics warn that it could leave the community in the shadow...