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Mine made it through the flight to Beijing, but only that far, since I accidentally left the contraption, hidden in the bag he gave me to protect it, at the hotel. Was his price of 70 yuan, just over 10 U.S. dollars, a fair cost for three days work? The lesson that hits me at every turn in China returns: I really don’t know. Instead, glimpses from getting lost in bovine entrail-avenues, or in what was taught about equitable wages, collect into impressions that take the place of understanding...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover | Title: Deliberately Lost in the Buffalo’s Gut | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

...this transformation also provides Western military commanders with opportunities they can exploit. Local populations that tolerated or supported the Taliban and al-Qaeda for ideological reasons are less likely to back criminal gangs. If Western commanders and the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan can help protect and organize local communities, they stand a better chance of winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting the New Narcoterrorism Syndicates | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

That such dramatic developments in two such sensitive cases should come now is probably no coincidence. Call them Exhibits A and B in the case to protect France's legal system from President Nicolas Sarkozy's reformist zeal. Sarkozy wants to do away with the post of independent investigating judge - a key feature of France's legal system - and place control of criminal inquiries in the hands of politically appointed state prosecutors. Citing a small number of high-profile instances in which judges have overstepped their investigative and detention powers, Sarkozy says he wants to reform France's inquisitorial justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Seven Dead Monks Upset President Nicolas Sarkozy's Bold Plans To Remake France's Legal System? | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

...died when an Algerian army helicopter patrolling an area south of the capital, Algiers, opened fire on what soldiers thought was a terrorist encampment. The monks were among the corpses discovered there. When Buchwalter reported that news to his superiors, he said, he was ordered to remain silent to protect French-Algerian relations. "There are a lot of aspects of the official story that just don't stand up, including the fact that several alerts on the Algerian army's responsibility were never followed up," says a French counterterrorism official who confirmed to Time the existence of Buchwalter's testimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Seven Dead Monks Upset President Nicolas Sarkozy's Bold Plans To Remake France's Legal System? | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

...seem to be on the lookout for ways to give themselves a boost in the polls. "[They] are trying to make an impression on society by using the most extreme methods," says Taras Karasiychuk, director of the Gay Alliance of Ukraine. "It's more populism than a desire to protect morals." (Read "The Brilliance of Sacha Baron Cohen: More Than a Comedian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Sex, Please: Ukraine Bans Brüno | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

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