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...True to the dogma of communism, the regime is making incessant efforts to clamp down on websites and blogs, hoping that dissent will not burst into a wildfire. When the demonstrations get ugly, the government may opt for bloody suppression and further fuel the people's outrage, leading to tragic anarchy. For the sake of the future of more than 1 billion people, let's hope that Beijing finds an amicable solution to the farmers' grievances. Venn Tzu Singapore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

Brilliant, brooding, fatally naive--J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the tragic figures of mid-20th century America. It was he who led the team at Los Alamos, N.M., that developed the first atom bomb. But after World War II he became an outspoken opponent of developing the even more powerful hydrogen bomb. That stance brought him the powerful enemies who would conspire to have him stripped of his security clearance and publicly humiliated. This biography is masterful, lucid and balanced, always mindful of Oppenheimer's role in his downfall--even at Los Alamos he was frequently surrounded by former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 6 Books to Catch Up With | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...True to the dogma of communism, the regime is making incessant efforts to clamp down on websites and blogs, hoping that dissent will not burst into a wildfire. When the demonstrations get ugly, the government may opt for bloody suppression and further fuel the people's outrage, leading to tragic anarchy. For the sake of the future of more than 1 billion people, let's hope Beijing finds an amicable solution to the farmers' grievances. Venn Tzu Singapore time's reporting proves that the Chinese farmers are afraid. Their protests are peaceful, but they are still beaten and killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Gathering Storm | 3/28/2006 | See Source »

...point, the poor girl compares her tragic assimilation into high school high society to Operation Desert Storm; at another, she says that the lunchroom hierarchy at Woodcliff is like the caste system in India...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Booking the Real Thing | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

...their father founded a half-century ago, Mininsedie, produced up to 500,000 chairs annually. But last year Mininsedie made just 130,000. Revenues have declined 50% in two years, and with losses mounting, the Minin brothers recently laid off five of their 15 employees. "The situation here is tragic," says Valerio, 51. "I just don't know how we're going to continue. You keep banging your head against the wall, and either the wall falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight In Italy | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

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