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...liberal leader China's Communist Party has ever known died in seclusion on Jan. 17 after spending more than 15 years under house arrest in this modest home on Fuqiang Lane. Many ordinary Chinese remember Zhao Ziyang, who advocated political reform and opposed the Tiananmen Square massacre, as a symbol of their country's democratic aspirations. His former comrades, by contrast, had tried never to mention him at all. Zhao became a political ghost, but one with a rare power. The mere utterance of his name, everybody knew, could reopen debate about his ideas. Many Chinese had hoped that their...
...join four European leaders, over a dozen airline CEOs, scores of journalists and more than 5,000 invited guests at Airbus headquarters, where his rival, Airbus CEO Noël Forgeard, is officially unveiling the mammoth A380, which cost $12 billion to launch. The A380 is a powerful symbol of the coming-of-age of the 35-year-old Airbus, and underscores the fact that the world's two major commercial airplanemakers - Airbus and Boeing - are at each other's throats as never before. Although the U.S. government and the European Union reached a temporary deal last week to avoid...
...novel" Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, a partly fictionalized investigation of the people and places that led to the Wall Street Journal reporter's 2002 beheading by Islamic extremists in Pakistan. When not typing, BHL is a frequent guest on chat shows, a staple of celebrity magazines and a durable symbol of the Parisian high life with his wife, actress/singer Arielle Dombasle. In other words, he's used to being a big target. But with five mostly scathing books about Lévy and his work recently published or on the way, even Lévy may finally be feeling overexposed...
...parties on the ballot will be identified simply by name, symbol and the name of the candidate at the top of their list. The vast majority of these parties and coalitions have been created over the past year, and are unknown to most Iraqis. Each party or coalition has put forward a list of candidates, and it will be allocated seats in the assembly proportionate to the share of the nationwide vote it wins on January 30. For example, if a party or coalition wins 20 percent of the nationwide vote, it will be allocated 55 of the 275 seats...
...NEWEST STATUS SYMBOL The two-seater Lexus LS-F, designed to compete with high-end European roadsters, will be the first car from Toyota to crack $100,000. --By Joseph R. Szczesny