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...Chinese simply desired mementos of their encounters with a Westerner, I’d brush it off as curiosity about the unknown and delight in having met it. As it is, the practice only adds to the unsettling feeling that I represent everything against which China has spent much of its modern history waging both military and ideological wars. And this country is welcoming me, perhaps at the expense of its own people...
...Russians, the price of freedom has been a poverty unknown even amid the drudgery of communism at its wheezy end, for the wider world it has ushered in a mix of the promise (and perils) of a truly global capitalist economy and mounting geopolitical uncertainty. It seemed safe to assume, a decade ago, that the end of a conflict between two powers whose combined nuclear arsenals could destroy the planet 300 times over would leave the world a safer place. Instead, today's world is more dangerous than ever. The very power in those nuclear arsenals - once they confronted...
...late 1960s, however, the war had begun to look like a gross miscalculation--a threat to the Kennedy legacy. "They began to change what they were saying about Kennedy and Vietnam," Gelb recalls. A 1970 article in LIFE magazine, by Jack's assistant Kenneth O'Donnell, recounted a previously unknown story in which Jack privately told advisers that he would withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam after the 1964 election. "I was struck by it because this was so at odds with what we had been hearing from Kennedy people before," Gelb says. "They were changing their mind and trying...
...Colaninno looked as if he was making history when he launched his hostile takeover of Telecom, then the largest such deal in Europe. While not unknown in Italian business circles, he had neither the clout nor the name of the man he had replaced at Olivetti, Carlo De Benedetti. But with the help of Cuccia and the center-left government of Massimo D'Alema, which gave a green light to the takeover, Colaninno threw a wrench into Italian family-style capitalism. And in the process, he managed to step on the feet of De Benedetti and the Agnelli family...
...Still unknown are the long term effects of pledges - whether, as proponents insist, they will lead to happier, healthier marriages. Bearman is currently at work on a follow-up tracking the same students into their twenties. But judging by an informal survey, some pledgers may have a rough road ahead. Been, for one, whose website lists his favorite hobby as dating and favorite comfort item as his waterbed, has run into romantic troubles of late. "Survivor kind of killed my dating life," he says. Perhaps it was all that talk of abstaining...