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Writing history is a dicey enterprise for Chinese scholars, and never more so than when the subject is a Communist Party figure like Zhou Enlai - China's Premier from the founding of the People's Republic until his death in 1976, and still regarded by the vast majority of Chinese as a saint. "Ordinary people thought he was a good man," says Gao Wenqian, once Zhou's government-appointed biographer and more recently the author of the revisionist (and unofficial) Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary, now available in a translation by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan...
...TIME, we've long had a commitment to covering environmental issues. The Environment section of the magazine was first created back in 1969 - long before the term global warming even existed. We published our first cover on that subject in 1987, and - in a break with tradition - named Endangered Earth our Planet of the Year in 1988. Our latest entry in this distinguished line of journalism was TIME International's double issue last month on Heroes of the Environment. To mark that issue, I was delighted to join my TIME colleagues and more than 400 distinguished guests, including TIME Warner...
...bluntly refers to the U.S. as an empire. And the nerdiness lends Paul's simple message an aura of credibility, especially on a stage with more polished politicians and their nuanced positions. "He's about something that American nerd culture can get on board with: really knowing one subject and going all out on it," says Ben Darrington, a Ron Paul supporter at Yale. "For some people, it's Star Wars. For some people, it's Japanese cartoons. For Ron Paul, it's free-market commodity money...
...This resolution advised the President not to sign treaties like Kyoto that do not demand emissions limits on developing countries (like China) and that would result in harm to the U.S. economy. Both points are flawed. While it is important that developing countries are, in the future, subject to the same rigid emissions caps currently imposed upon developed nations, developed countries—the countries that historically have “caused” global warming—cannot afford to postpone action. If the U.S., a rich country with advanced green technology, does not make a commitment to reduce...
...joke. I told him, 'OK, I have an offer for you. I can give you free oil for 25 years, including transportation, including tax. On one condition: we split the gasoline tax in your country 50-50. He looked at me and said, 'Mr. Minster, let's change the subject.' Europe is making more money than OPEC without putting one dollar in investments...