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...typical scene intercuts blacks fermenting restless mob violence against a frontier family, a biracial servant trying to rape his former mistress, and the Klu Klux Klan heroically riding to the rescue, clearly indicating the necessity of white racial supremacy...

Author: By Emily G.W. Chau, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Cult Classic Born Again | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

...include inducting Chief Secretary Tsang, 60, as Tung's successor. Unlike Tung, Tsang, who is popularly known for wearing colorful bow ties, grew up in a low-income household and is respected by many Hong Kong people for making a success of his life. As a veteran civil servant, Tsang knows how Hong Kong works. And as a lifelong administrator, his instinct is to be conservative?a quality Beijing appreciates. "He's someone who is able to carry on business as usual, ensure economic growth and political stability, and who doesn't create controversy," says City University's Cheung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time For Tung To Go? | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

...Devil looked up with a start and sniffed the air. “Wait, my servant,” the Devil cried. “I sense someone spying...

Author: By Jason L. Lurie, | Title: The Devil and Larry Summers | 3/2/2005 | See Source »

Friends of Ann and Richard Morris, 51 and 55, a teacher's aide and a civil servant in Chesapeake, Va., told the couple earlier this year they were nuts to take in a teenager at their stage of life. But they arranged for one anyway from the Center for Cultural Interchange (ICC). "Four bedrooms is too many for us," Ann says. "We need to fill them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full House Again | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...Khan had a secret life. In hindsight, there were some obvious tip-offs. Although still a civil servant in a poor country, he owned dozens of properties in Pakistan and Dubai and invested in a Timbuktu hotel, which he named after his wife. He donated $30 million to various Pakistani charities and had enough money left over to buy his staff members cars and pay for the university education of their children. He had an ego to match his newfound fortune: after paying to restore the tomb of Sultan Shahabuddin Ghauri, an Afghan who conquered Delhi, Khan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Sold the Bomb | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

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