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...contest may not be accompanied by the blaring cold-war overtones of the last great space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. China's space program is conducted largely in secret, and Japan's modest achievements don't make headlines. But plenty is at stake. Over the past few years, a centuries-old rivalry between China and Japan has flared anew. While the two countries are increasingly interdependent economically, relations remain uncomfortably strained as fast-growing China begins to challenge Japan as the preeminent East Asian power. This spring, for example, anti-Japan riots erupted in a number...
...tumultuous 1960s. But Merkel, 51, though raised on the Beatles, grew up in East Germany. Her sense of the essence of the 1960s must be very different from that of Wessis of the same age - less flower power and protests against the Vietnam war, more Soviet tanks rolling into Wenceslas Square to crush the Prague Spring, and the numbing Soviet leadership of the Brezhnev era. Christian Wulff, 46, Governor of Lower Saxony and one of the most prominent young leaders in the Christian Democrat party, told reporters last month: "We need to look at the 1968 generation with a greater...
...summer intern in 1986 while attending Yale. After a brief stint in Key West, Fla., for the Miami Herald, Jay rejoined TIME as head of its Miami bureau. Fluent in Russian, Jay went on to serve in Moscow from 1990 to 1993, where he covered the unraveling of the Soviet empire. He then came to Washington, where he covered the Clinton White House, Capitol Hill, the 2000 Bush campaign and finally the Bush White House, and, among other things, was one of the few reporters on Air Force One on 9/11. "When I left Moscow for Washington in the summer...
These days Lenin leaves most Russians cold. As a post-Soviet generation comes of age and consumerism is the rage, the father of the Bolshevik Revolution is irrelevant. "No one discusses Lenin, not even our teachers," says Serezha, 17, who was riding his mountain bike nearby. And yet nearly 15 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Lenin's body retains its place of honor in Red Square, where it has lain since 1924. Now Russia's ruling élite is exhuming an old debate: whether to move Lenin's body out of the mausoleum and bury it. Georgi...
...rebuilding its repressive machinery, and we are discussing Lenin's body." Yet the debate also is a window on changing attitudes among the ruling élite. Since Putin came to power, a new ideology has been taking shape that blends imperial nostalgia with the occasional careful nod to the Soviet Union's greatness under Stalin. These days the Kremlin honor guard wears 1812-era uniforms, and attending Orthodox church services is a good career move. Even the Stalin-era national anthem is back. Lenin, a ruthless but austere revolutionary, an enemy of empires and religion, is out of fashion. Denouncing...