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Like many of the oracular pronouncements of China's Communist Party, the arrest last week of Shanghai Party boss Chen Liangyu had multiple meanings. On one level, the purge of a prominent Politburo member-over allegations that Chen allowed associates to milk Shanghai's pension accounts to fund investments in...
The tradition of banning names dates to the beginning of the Islamic Revolution in the early 1980s, when Iran's fundamentalist leaders sought to purge the country of both Western culture and its own Persian, pre-Islamic past. Religious extremists consider it unfortunate that Iranians used to be Zoroastrians, or...
As Bosnian Serb politicians go, Milorad Dodik was considered one of the good guys. The former businessman took over the job of Prime Minister of the Bosnian Serb Republic in Banja Luka shortly after the end of the Bosnian war in 1995, helping to purge the local government of cronies...
Thanks to the College’s Curricular Review, the Core Curriculum, that onerous set of requirements that has burdenered undergrads for a generation, will soon, finally, be extinct. But that’s of little help to you, fellow undergraduate, for you will be the victim of The Core...
"While a change in your Iraq policy will best advance our chances for success, we do not believe the current civilian leadership at the Department of Defense is suited to implement and oversee such a change in policy." LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH, signed by a dozen congressional Democrats, urging him...