Word: totalitarian
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...that AOL Time Warner and News Corp., purveyors of Western programming and news that does not match Beijing's worldview, cannot. Li will never slip up as Murdoch, the News Corp. chairman, did in 1993 when he declared in a speech that foreign media have the power to topple totalitarian regimes everywhere?a statement that got him temporarily banned from conducting business in China. Conversely, Li's easy rapport with Beijing's Elite, as well as his sensitivity to the party line, is unquestioned. "Li has guanxi, he has connections," says Louis Wong, director of research at Phillip Securities...
...this story sounds a trifle unbelievable—well, good. It is unbelievable; indeed, it never happened. Albert Speer never taught at Harvard, even in 1937, when the Nazi regime he represented was merely totalitarian, and not yet engaged in attempted genocide...
...with this. Substitute Coyula-Cowley for Speer (and Castro for Hitler), and the quotes above represent the view of Jorge I. Dominguez, Clarence Dillon professor of international affairs, and Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack, respectively, on the advisability of appointing an apparatchik from a totalitarian state to the Harvard faculty. To them, you can add the names of Steve Reifenberg, director of the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, who is “enormously pleased to have him here,” and Professor of History James T. Kloppenberg, who told The Crimson that...
...Yanqui imperialism,” its much-touted system of universal health care, and its post-Cold War isolation, Cuba’s nasty and oppressive regime seems sad and bullied and even a little bit cute—the “Tickle-Me-Elmo” of totalitarian states. And let’s not forget the enduring appeal of its cigar-chomping despot, the “glue that holds Cuba together,” as Coyula-Cowley says, and the only dictator clever enough to get people to call him by his first name. Why, everybody...
...Olympics have always represented to me the pinnacle of athletic pride; replete with stories of devotion to excellence and overcoming tremendous barriers (and occasional totalitarian governments). Over the course of my 17-day affair with a set of five rings, I had been caught up in practical daydreaming for someone else. While I could never be Sarah Hughes, I could dream about her winning a gold if she made her triple lutzes...