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...Beijing faces a host of woes ranging from pervasive corruption to a crippled banking system to the contradictions inherent in its combination of half-baked capitalism and single-party control. Without the adoption of democratic principles and institutions such as the rule of law, representative government and a free press, China's current path is unsustainable-in other words, it's democracy or bust. It is in the West's interest to encourage China's recognition of that fact, Hutton argues-and also to reaffirm its own commitment to those ideals...
...exiting party—a group of high school students, teachers, and parent chaperones visiting from California—included a father who emptied a bottle of water onto Daisey’s notes, according to Katalin Mitchell, the director of press and public relations...
Daisey said in an interview yesterday that he would not press charges for the destruction of his notes...
...silencing him, why not push him to talk more, and pointedly, about the issues his remarks have raised? Invite the Rutgers women’s basketball team into the CBS studio and make Imus and McGuirk confront the faces of the people they have offended on national TV. Press Imus’s two or three million daily listeners to think hard about why it’s funny to make misogynistic jokes about women athletes. And, as the Washington Post’s Sally Jenkins has suggested, invite Imus to be a sponsor of Rutgers women?...
...road that led to the 1991 White House confrontation. While no official text of the speech was published at the time, presumably because the Politburo was nervous about revealing such frank criticism from one of its own members, various versions circulated in samizdat as well as the Western press. According to one report Yeltsin had voiced widely held popular grievances about ordinary Russians' standard of living. "Comrades," he began, "I find it hard to explain to a worker why, in the 70th year of the dictatorship of the proletariat, he still has to stand in line for sausage that...