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Building on an already politicized career, Harvard Law School Professor Laurence H. Tribe '62 recently appeared in one of the first presidential campaign advertisements for Sen. Barack Obama, hoping to help bolster support in the primaries for his former student...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tribe Lends Support to Early Obama Iowa Push | 7/6/2007 | See Source »

...Gong demonstrators jostled for space with activists urging an end to political pressure on RTHK, Hong Kong's public broadcaster. As the crowd moved steadily through the streets of Causeway Bay, a popular shopping district, union representatives brushed shoulders with nationalists bearing oversized posters of Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen and bright Taiwan flags. Groups of demonstrators broke up to make way for an oversized wooden float piloted by an elderly driver hawking traditional Chinese medicine for crow's feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Democracy Has No Dress Code | 7/2/2007 | See Source »

...more than 10% last year, due in part to tourism and the textile industry). But wealth appears to be concentrated in the hands of the few. Earlier this month, the international watchdog organization Global Witness released the findings of a three-year investigation that accuses a network of Hun Sen's relatives and friends of having made tens of millions of dollars from illegal logging. (Several of those implicated by Global Witness have denied the allegations, and the watchdog's report itself has been banned from domestic distribution by the Cambodian government.) In the report, Global Witness castigates the international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia Keeps Taking, Gives Little | 6/22/2007 | See Source »

...have to depend only on Western donors to help it patch together its economy and government. There is China. Unlike other foreign governments, China puts few strings on its aid, and its generosity in doling out funds for the Cambodian government now rivals Western munificence. Last year, Hun Sen publicly praised Cambodia's "most trustworthy friend" China for its pledge of $600 million in aid and loans; this month, the Cambodian Prime Minister went on to thank the Communist giant for giving money without "order[ing] us to do this or that" - presumably in contrast to pesky requests for reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia Keeps Taking, Gives Little | 6/22/2007 | See Source »

...donor community for their consistent unwillingness to pull aid when their pleas for reform aren't met. "The donors' list of conditions hardly changes over time, and the government simply ignores them year after year," says Brad Adams, Asia director of New York-based Human Rights Watch. "Hun Sen continues to run circles around the donors, making the same empty promises every year and laughing all the way to the bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia Keeps Taking, Gives Little | 6/22/2007 | See Source »

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