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...lives of women like Dunne are the subject of an exhibition, "Women Transported: Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories," whose national tour opens Aug. 2 at the Parramatta Heritage Centre. Between 1804 and the early 1850s, some 10,000 British women served in one of the 12 female work houses - known as factories - in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). Theirs is a tale of dislocation and suffering of which few Australians have more than the sketchiest knowledge, yet it's hardly stretching things to call these women the mothers of a nation, or to suggest...
Contemporary China is a trickier subject. It's vibrant and fascinating but also an economic rival with human-rights and environmental issues. And for the corporations that run studios and cut distribution, satellite and Internet deals with Beijing, it's a vast market with a growing middle class--and a government touchy about unflattering portrayals. To make the Mummy sequel, filmmakers had to submit scripts to the Chinese state co-producers. Western companies that embrace freedom of information on this side of the Pacific have acceded to Chinese censorship: Microsoft, Yahoo!, even Google--whose slogan, "Don't be evil," turned...
...knows it. When he visits his ex-wife Kim, on whom he recklessly cheated, she refuses to talk with him about the past. It's a satisfying encounter, as we witness the head-on collision of Carr the intrepid reporter-author and Carr the self-critical and ambivalent subject. Kim's silence, he writes, "is a significant loss in the effort to find the truth of what I did and why. But I secretly admired her unwillingness to engage my needs, my narcissism, one more time...
...rarely make personal attacks on the President. He's an amiable fellow. But he's done tremendous harm. There isn't any subject that you can name that hasn't been severely damaged by the policies of the Bush Administration...
...very taken with the idea and asked if he might elaborate on it for TIME. Thus began a rewarding collaboration that yielded his powerful piece in this week's issue--part of our special report on the economy--as well as a stimulating roundtable on the subject of creative capitalism...