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...chronic election woes. From his days covering politics for Rolling Stone, New York, Newsweek and the New Yorker to his best-selling work of fiction--as Anonymous, he wrote Primary Colors, the scaldingly funny roman a clef about Bill Clinton--Joe has emerged as one of America's premier political journalists. I'm thrilled to have him at TIME, even if he occasionally questions the wisdom of hitting the road for another round of motel rooms and crack-of-dawn pancake breakfasts. "I don't really know why I keep doing this," says Klein. "It goes against all sanity...
...more than a half-century, American foreign policy involving oil has been cloaked in intrigue and deception, from the overthrow of the Premier of Iran in 1953 to the arming of Afghan rebels through the 1980s, from the permanent establishment of a military presence in the Persian Gulf to the early support of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. If Iraq is now handled openly--meaning the war really was about liberating Iraq from a dictator and the rest of the world from a security threat, as the Bush Administration asserts, and not about gaining control of oil reserves, as much...
...prices as well as Iran's token share of the proceeds. Mossadegh sought a fifty-fifty sharing agreement, which was then becoming the common arrangement between other oil-producing countries and U.S. companies. The British refused. In 1951 Mossadegh successfully pushed to nationalize Anglo-Iranian, became Iran's Premier and established the National Iranian...
...Hebei alone, the number of reported cases shot up from 48 at the end of April to 157 on May 10. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued a travel advisory for Inner Mongolia and Tianjin, after their SARS caseloads rose to 284 and 149 respectively. Last week, Premier Wen Jiabao said there is currently "no large-scale epidemic emerging in the rural areas." Even so, he warned that dilapidated medical facilities, poor equipment and shoddy monitoring for epidemics were "hidden dangers for the spread of SARS" in the countryside...
...April 20, willingly parried with foreign journalists last week during a press conference aired live on local TV?a radical departure for a leadership that sometimes even scripts the angle of a handshake between two officials. Likewise China's new tag team at the top, President Hu and Premier Wen, has encouraged openness?at least in handling SARS. Now, many will begin pressuring the government to show the same transparency every day. "After SARS, there will be a big rethink of the political structure," predicts Zhang Dajun, founder of the independent Economic Watch Center in Beijing. "The people...