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...book and movie called The Falcon and the Snowman, claims the security check he underwent in 1974 "was a joke." If investigators had talked to just one his friends, he testified, they would have found a "room full disillusioned longhairs, counter culture falconers, druggie surfers, several wounded, paranoid vets, pot-smoking, anti-Establishment types." Instead, Boyce was not only hired but was assigned to monitor secret worldwide communications between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spying to Support a Life-Style | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...Viet Nam's six-year occupation of Kampuchea, suggesting negotiated power sharing between Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Kampuchea's former head of state, and the Hanoi-backed regime of Heng Samrin. This could work, said Thach, only after a retreat into exile could be arranged for Pol Pot, the notorious Communist leader of Kampuchea's Khmer Rouge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: Wary U.S. Aid Envoys seek to end a conflict | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...days after Vietnamese troops drove Pol Pot from power in 1979, a Cambodian farmer named Neang Say returned to his home village of Choeung Ek on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. He came upon a tree with blood, brain matter and hair embedded in the bark. Nearby he found an open pit filled with corpses?one of the 129 mass graves dug by the Khmer Rouge for the estimated 17,000 people they executed at the secluded spot. Neang Say was one of the first people to bring Choeung Ek's horrors to the attention of the invading Vietnamese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revenue Fields | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

Spend time with Feng Tao, one of China's most successful venture capitalists, and you will hear a lot about "fake people." His Shanghai-based firm, NewMargin Ventures, weeds through 3,000 proposals a year from businesses hungry for a portion of its $100 million pot. Somehow he's got to sniff out the real deals from the pretenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ferreting Out the Phonies | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

Spend time with Feng Tao, one of China's most successful venture capitalists, and you will hear a lot about "fake people." His Shanghai-based firm, NewMargin Ventures, weeds through 3,000 proposals a year from businesses hungry for a portion of its $100 million pot. Somehow he's got to sniff out the real deals from the pretenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ferreting Out the Phonies | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

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