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...democracy effective in India? there is always the inevitable comparison with China, which has progressed spectacularly in spite of a vast, impoverished population and an absence of democracy. China's advantage is its far more homogeneous society and its single-party rule, which can easily suppress any social dissent and move rapidly on any project. Also, China learned the lessons of Mao-era excesses and made necessary course corrections. Similarly India has understood the errors of its socialist beginnings, which suppressed private enterprise in all fields at the cost of developing human resources and infrastructure. But India, too, has made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

...autopsy could, however, rule out a heart attack. If Jackson's cardiac arrest had been triggered by a heart attack - caused by a ruptured plaque blocking blood flow to his heart - then pathologists should be able to see the occluded vessel and the fresh evidence of the clogged-up heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Drugs Kill Michael Jackson? | 6/27/2009 | See Source »

Paul, Representative Ron • single vote against a benign resolution "expressing support for all Iranian citizens who embrace the values of freedom, human rights, civil liberties, and rule of law" is cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

...reportedly large enough to allow large vehicles to drive through them. The projects have been nicknamed "tortoise shells" by the government - the often brutally repressive regime intends to use North Korea's subterranean savvy to man a network of underground command centers, linked with fiber-optic cable, that can rule Burma in times of emergency and quash any civilian uprising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Burma May Be North Korea's Best Friend | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

...country to work in for journalists, with 50 killed since 1992. Most recently, in January Anastasiya Baburova, another Novaya Gazeta journalist, was shot and killed alongside human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov in broad daylight in central Moscow. "President Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have pledged to enforce the rule of law by investigating crimes against the press. Nonetheless, attacks on journalists continue to occur with impunity," wrote CPJ director Joel Simon in a letter to President Obama ahead of his trip to Moscow. "This record of impunity is a matter of international importance. Deadly violence against journalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Russian Reporter's Murder: Will a Retrial Bring Justice? | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

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