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...peaceful coexistence of its 55 ethnic minorities and the majority Han. True, discontent simmers in the provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang, where Buddhists and Muslims have clamored for independence, and various other Chinese minorities claim they are held back economically by the Han. But ethnic tensions in China seldom turn violent. Especially well assimilated is China's largest Muslim minority, the Hui, who number some 10 million and are scattered throughout the country. After centuries of intermarriage between Han and Muslim merchant families, the Hui, who first came to China in the 7th century, are largely indistinguishable physically from...
...armies line up to wait for their signal, a weary public watches the spectacle with a different emotion. If the pollsters are right, there is a mass of voters--off the media's radar because they seldom scream--who can live with either outcome but dread an Uncivil War. As the warnings of chaos grow more dire, they could be forgiven for caring less about who wins this election than about how he wins and when. A TIME poll finds that 48% of Americans believe that an illegitimate winner may prevail; 56% are ready to abolish the Electoral College...
...junior guys start to receive mysterious visitations from final club fairies who put strange handwritten notes in their drop boxes. Not to be confused with poorly photocopied investment banking presentations advertisements, there is a certain “old school” care taken with these notes that is seldom seen nowadays, and that is both a little mysterious and eccentric...
Victims of oppression seldom have a chance to face their tormentors. But Ahmad Jamal gets the opportunity nearly every day. He can usually spot them by their cars - late-model Toyota Avalons, Peugeots, Mercedes and BMWs issued to Baathist leaders, with Iraqi license plates. These former officials from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, the mukhabarat (Iraqi secret police) and other parts of the Iraqi state apparatus cruise Amman's streets, roam its malls and enjoy its restaurants. "Two years ago, they brought us misery," Jamal says. "Now they're living it up in exile in Amman and we have...
...does fight. The economic reality of the world is that those who can earn a living elsewhere doing something more profitable generally do so—the armed forces are largely for the poor or those who cannot otherwise get funding for a college education. These people seldom go on to senior positions in the State or Defense departments. Those positions go to Ivy League graduates who speak great things about international politics, soft power, credible threats...