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China's Triumph I enjoyed reading your cover story on "China's Moment" [Sept. 28]. It's easy to conclude that, in China, free-market principles have proved once again their superiority by looking at the speed and scale of the country's development once liberalizing reforms were made. It's also worth asking how much China's unique authoritarian politics contribute to its impressive and highly competitive economic efficiency. Could this growth model continue for the next 60 years? Timothy Yin, Shanghai...
...still trying to separate fraudulent tallies from ballots. In some provinces, many more votes were counted than were cast. E.U. election monitors characterize 1.5 million votes as suspect, which would include up to one-third of the votes cast for incumbent President Hamid Karzai. Once fraud occurs on the scale of what took place in Afghanistan, it is impossible to untangle...
...political method has failed badly,” said McKibben. “Virtually nothing has been done to grapple with the scale of this problem or to take measures of the kind we need to take...
...precipitous drop in interest rates and liquidity considerations made it important for us to scale back the swaps substantially,” said University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg ’68 in a interview posted by Harvard. “That has come at a real cost, but at least we are now in a better risk position going forward...
...Siam, annexed the region in the early 20th century. Since then some Muslim residents, who make up roughly 80% of the local population, have complained of feeling like second-class citizens in what elsewhere is a predominantly Buddhist land. Sporadic violence in the deep south bloomed into a full-scale insurgency in 2004. Overtly Buddhist targets like monks and teachers have been murdered by shadowy perpetrators, while Muslims thought to be collaborators with the government have been killed as well. In recent months, the Thai government has unleashed a troop surge to try to quell the violence, which...