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...Premier was a conflicted, even tragic, figure. Zhou was raised in a scholarly family steeped in Confucian philosophy. He lived in Paris for a time and in later life favorably impressed world leaders, including, most significantly, U.S. President Richard Nixon, who described in his memoirs Zhou's "brilliance and dynamism." Zhou was everything Mao was not: cultured where Mao was crude, consistent where Mao was mercurial and stoic where Mao was given to flights of paranoia. How, then, did Mao come to so utterly dominate his second in command...
...Year in 1988. Our latest entry in this distinguished line of journalism was TIME International's double issue last month on Heroes of the Environment. To mark that issue, I was delighted to join my TIME colleagues and more than 400 distinguished guests, including TIME Warner Chairman and CEO Richard Parsons, TIME Warner President and Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Bewkes, TIME Inc. CEO Ann Moore, actress and environmental activist Heather Graham, human-rights activist and former hostage Terry Waite, and philanthropist Sabrina Guinness at London's Royal Courts of Justice on Oct. 25 to honor our awardees...
...Richard Stengel, MANAGING EDITOR
...Persecution of such a highly endangered bird can elicit stiff penalties: under wildlife protection legislation, the perpetrator could receive up to six months in prison or a ?5,000 fine (about $10,000). According to Richard Brunstrom, chief constable of the North Wales Police, it is "likely" the culpable party would receive prison time if found. "The courts have made it fairly clear in these sorts of offenses that imprisonment is a reasonable proposition," Brunstrom added in a video message on the RSPB's Web site...
...Video cameras will photograph all diplomatic convoys in Iraq, including those guarded by contractors, and each convoy will be accompanied by a diplomatic security officer reporting directly to the Department. Following a scathing internal report that found serious lapses in the department's oversight, the head of Diplomatic Security, Richard Griffin, resigned under pressure last week...