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What made Power's argument so bracing--and cemented its place as one of the decade's most important books on U.S. foreign policy--was her verdict that, far from ignoring genocide, three generations of American leaders knowingly and deliberately decided it was not in the country's interest to stop it. "One of the most important conclusions I have reached," Power wrote, "is that the U.S. record is not one of failure. It is one of success ... U.S. officials worked the system and the system worked...
...nerve. Environmentalists reacted to him in the way that corporate public relations departments had learned not to react to them: by fanning the flames with intemperate attacks. He was vilified in Scientific American magazine. He was found guilty of "scientific dishonesty" by a national committee of Danish scientists (the verdict was later overturned). With each attack, sales of his book boomed. And try as they might, the critics could not paint this mild-mannered, bicycle-riding, leftish vegetarian as a corporate apologist...
Yang was tried in Chinese court last August on charges of espionage and visa violations. A verdict was supposed to be issued by December...
...more than eight months after the trial, a verdict has not been issued—in violation of Chinese law, according...
Yang planned a hunger strike in March to protest his detention without a verdict, but he decided against the idea when he heard that his wife opposed the plan...