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...Using the Olympics as a forum for criticizing China is both counterproductive and unfair. The Chinese people are proud of their achievements of the past couple of decades and, though much still needs to be done, they are progressing at an impressive pace. Engagement is the only way to influence both the people and their government. While muted in their public criticism of their political leaders, the Chinese people are surprisingly frank in admitting their shortcomings, though they tend to accept restrictions on political freedom as a necessary trade-off for the economic gains they have achieved. Given time...
...contact with the world outside her prison, both because she was abducted as a 10-year-old and because she was periodically allowed out during her captivity; the Fritzls were kept imprisoned without reprieve. "Time went by very slowly [in the cellar], and we want to maintain this slow pace for them," says Dr. Berthold Kepplinger, the director of the Amstetten clinic where the family is being treated...
...salaries and even higher ambitions, Bangalore today is a hive of stressed-out techies and managers. In many ways, the city is a microcosm of the changes India has gone through during the last two decades: rapid urbanization, migration and expansion with which its infrastructure has failed to keep pace. Rising incomes have brought significant socio-economic and lifestyle changes, but have also bred discord - should you let your child spend on a night out an amount equal to your monthly salary not so long ago? Globalization has brought Westernization, but not everyone is able to cope with the changing...
...rebel. One part of that is simply his years: at 68, he is twice (and in a few cases, three times) the age of his colleagues. He is allergic to e-mail and loads his pockets down each morning with extra cell-phone batteries to keep up with the pace of modern campaign communications. In a suite of offices where black is de rigueur for women as well as men, Ickes is a somewhat diverting figure who favors a colorful Carnaby Street fashion sense--purple dress shirts and floral ties are his trademarks--that is as brash and unapologetic...
...military's senior Hispanic officer - when he led U.S. forces in the first year of the war. He was relieved of his command by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in 2004 following the revelations of the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. In 2005, Marine General Peter Pace, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called him to say his career was over and he wouldn't get the promotion to a full general - four stars - that Sanchez says he was promised. Six months later, at Rumsfeld's request, he showed up at the Pentagon...