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...From his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, Hu inherited the mandate for maintaining China's social compact after the Tiananmen Square massacre: the government gets to continue its autocratic ways, and in return the people get the longest sustained period of prosperity in more than 50 years. During last year's 16th Party Congress, which saw Hu's appointment as General Secretary, China's leaders made but one concrete pledge to the public?and it had dollar signs attached. The CCP vowed to quadruple the nation's per capita income by the year...
...local teens delivering the knockout scene in this year's most anticipated Japanese movie. Battle Royale II opens in Japan this month amid a deafening buzz of hype and expectation, and with one question looming over the rest: will the sequel generate as much outrage and controversy as its predecessor? "I hope so," says the film's director, Kenta Fukasaku. "The more strongly people react, the better...
...Although it outguns its predecessor in terms of bullets, bombs and dramatic battlefield deaths, Battle Royale II lacks the original's who'll-die-next-and-how suspense. Much of the satisfaction in the first movie came from watching the kids transform, Lord of the Flies-like, into bloodthirsty killing machines as the game races towards its climax. The characters in the sequel are a simpler breed, eventually teaming up against malevolent adults. Fans of the stubbornly misanthropic original may feel betrayed by the intrusion of more humane sentiments...
Sulzberger named Joseph Lelyveld, Raines' predecessor--a measured manager, liked in the newsroom--to be the interim executive editor while a replacement search is under way. Sulzberger tells TIME he's looking for a "great journalist" who is "an effective leader and a manager"--which, in the wake of the Raines war, may be more than mere corporate-speak. "If employees are happy and fulfilled," he says, "generally what they produce is good." Times employees say they are relieved to have a respite from the turmoil with Lelyveld, who addressed the newsroom Friday, ending with four simple words...
...time novelists, both from the same publisher. The Dogs of Babel arrives almost exactly a year after The Lovely Bones and with some of the same buzz--both scored Anna Quindlen's coveted endorsement, for example. But while The Dogs of Babel has many of the virtues of its predecessor and will no doubt please many of the same readers, it won't please them quite as much...