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...authorities don't see it that way. Police have police have interrogated more than 100 of the document's original signatories; Liu Xiaobo, a dissident scholar who was one of the drafters, was arrested by Beijing police on Dec. 8 and remains in custody. In an article published in an official journal on Jan. 18, Jia Qinglin, China's fourth-highest official, warned that the country should avoid multiparty systems, separation of political powers and other "erroneous ideological interferences." And in December President Hu Jintao warned the country to "not waver" in implementing economic reform, a remark that was interpreted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chinese Dissident Bao Tong Speaks Out | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

...Saudi officials argue that its successes far outnumber the handful of recidivists like al-Shihri and al-Oufi. "These things are never going to be perfect, but when you look at the big picture of rehabilitation, it's a remarkable story," says Christopher Boucek, a Carnegie Endowment scholar who has closely studied the Saudi program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Jihadis Be Rehabilitated? | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

...illusion of a unified and coherent vision of French history, a past that is actually very diverse, complex and chaotic. "A single venue dedicated to the history of France makes no sense, and is even dangerous in seeking to create a single, global, and unique (national) history," curator, scholar, and former Picasso Museum director Jean Clair told the Journal du Dimanche. "It's totally a incomprehensible project, because all museums are historical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong With a Museum of French History? | 1/18/2009 | See Source »

...Recently named a visiting scholar at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, University of California, Berkeley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chesley B. Sullenberger III | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...which allows people to vote on questions they want Obama to answer. Some popular examples: Will you legalize marijuana? Will you appoint a prosecutor to investigate possible Bush Administration crimes? All this was done with almost no publicity and barely a whisper of encouragement from Obama himself. As a scholar of online politics, Personal Democracy Forum's Micah Sifry, puts it, "I think Obama is sitting on a volcano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Permanent Grass-Roots Campaign | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

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