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...crisis by unleashing much deeper resentment than he had counted on. Deng fully backed Mao in a retaliatory purge that sent thousands of educators and artists to jail and banished hundreds of thousands more to the countryside. Indeed, for all his departures from standard Communist doctrine in the economic realm, Deng has never veered from orthodoxy when it came to maintaining the party's political primacy. China must always remain a "socialist democracy, people's democracy," he said in 1979, not a "bourgeois democracy, individualist democracy...
...interrogation log of Detainee 063 provides the first internal look at the highly classified realm of Gitmo interrogations since the detention camp opened four years ago. Chief Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita tells TIME that the log was compiled by various uniformed interrogators and observers on the Pentagon's Joint Task Force at Gitmo as the interrogation proceeded. It is stamped SECRET ORCON, a military acronym for a document that is supposed to remain with the organization that created it. A Pentagon official who has seen the log describes it as the "kind of document that was never meant to leave...
Ever the legal buff, having graduated from Columbia Law School in 1988, Caroline’s 1996 treatise, “The Right to Privacy,” investigates the shrinking realm of privacy at the hands of the very profession she sought to join...
...turning the practices of documentary photography, as he said simply, "toward more personal ends." What he might have said was that they were entirely discarding the conventions of that kind of photography--easy-to-grasp, socially concerned images of David Douglas Duncan or W. Eugene Smith--to enter a realm that was a whole lot stranger...
Your critique of "7 Books of Poetry Worth Curling Up With" [May 9] was welcome. It is nice to know that poetry has not lost its place in our misguided material world. When we as a society lose interest in poetry, we further alienate ourselves from the spiritual realm of human existence. Perhaps, in addition to free verse, there is room for old-fashioned rhyme and meter. Fashion should not apply to poetry...