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...Stalin's pudgy Sancho Panza was the man who, in February 1956, delivered the famous four-hour "secret speech" to the party congress in which he set forth Stalin's crimes and began the complex, much delayed process of de-Stalinization. Out of guilt or common decency, he began to rinse the terror out of Soviet life. Writes Taubman: "His daring but bumbling attempt to reform communism began the long, erratic process of putting a human face (initially his own) on an inhumane system...
MITCHELL: When you have more and more households paying the AMT, it will make people hate the tax system, which politically will build support for tax reform. I will tell you a secret. I am always telling our ideological allies on the Hill, "Don't fix this. Let it fester...
...Chen is one of China's few independent documentary filmmakers?and to get honest footage in a country that often treats truth as a state secret, the 33-year-old cameraman relies as much on stealth as stagecraft. For his 2002 documentary, To Live is Better Than To Die, a stark portrayal of a family destroyed by AIDS, he sneaked into the village of Wenlou in central Henan province dressed as a peasant, creeping through cornfields in the dead of night with his equipment stashed in a fertilizer bag. That was the only way he could elude police in order...
...contract, while satisfying their artistic yearnings with self-financed projects. In February the BBC aired two of their films as part of a series entitled New China, New Year. Jiang and Duan's films will also show at this month's Hong Kong International Film Festival. While making The Secret of My Success, a hilariously honest account of a corrupt village election and a winner of the Silver Wolf award at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, Duan kept a CCTV decal stuck on the front of his camera. "It opens doors," he explains...
...China's Failing Health System Travel: SARS Flightmares SARS Riots: Quarantine Blues China: SARS is 'Make or Break' Is SARS Getting Deadlier? Beating Back the Bug China: SARS Nation Guangdong: Beating SARS? Hong Kong: System Failure Shanghai SARS Cases 'Secret' Viruses: Hard to Kill Hong Kong: Keep on Scrubbing...