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...muggy July night, China's capital transformed. As indulgent police looked on, revelers hung from traffic lights and clambered up lampposts. Tens of thousands of Chinese sang along to patriotic songs being broadcast from creaky loudspeakers that, in an earlier era, had been used to threaten democracy protestors. At one point, a drunken man with his undershirt pulled up to air his belly weaved up to me, beer bottle in hand. "Hey, foreigner," he called out, waggling his finger in my face. "China...
...operation, assaulting prostitutes and forcing some of them to undergo breast-enlargement operations; they were convicted and sentenced to prison terms in July. Yet despite that victory, law-enforcement officials believe many other criminals are escaping prosecution. "Girls just will not go to the police, in case these men threaten their families at home," says a police officer who didn't want to be named. He says he has seen prostitutes beaten with baseball bats and burned with cigarettes; even then, they steer clear of cops...
...consequent misery suffered by untold millions - the unemployed, the landless, tens of millions of migrant workers laboring under inhuman conditions, the countless victims of widespread corruption. Government officials have acknowledged that up to hundreds of so-called mass incidents occur every day. These often violent eruptions of frustration occasionally threaten to spread into chaos; as the Olympics loomed, they were more tightly controlled, or often simply ignored by the media. Now that the Games are over, it's a good bet that the turmoil will resurface...
...began to revise my opinion of Musharraf after 9/11. The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in response to terrorism, and the terrorist attack on its parliament later that year led India to threaten to do the same to Pakistan. Musharraf seemed to offer firm leadership in this time of crisis, managing to reverse Pakistan's policy of support to the Taliban and embarking on a normalization process with India...
...paper shredder, he soon attracts the attention of Soviet spies, jealous White House insiders and, worse, the President, who makes him a trusted adviser. Benchley's story embraces the debate over invading Honduras (Ronald Reagan's earlier incursion into Nicaragua having failed) and a yachtload of American homosexuals who threaten to blow up a Soviet supertanker in Cuba. But all that is mere backdrop for a mordant overview of Washington props and icons: a Cabinet Room table has buttons underneath marked ''Coke, Tab, Fresca, Pepsi, Coffee, Tea.'' When told that he is heading for the wrong aircraft, the President roars...