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But, make no mistake, this crowd is linked, inextricably and powerfully, to the elderly power brokers dining, rather more formally, 30 miles to the south. In China, respect for your elders, for your forbears, is even more important than making money. And as Robin Li, the Baidu CEO, told a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing's Dinners and Revolutions | 8/10/2008 | See Source »

But that said, this is a good, serious and absorbing movie - especially, perhaps, for a reviewer who is roughly Kepesh's age and, of course, eagerly evading the issues his story forces up. Death in the movies usually presents itself as the end of a bullet's path. Or, alternatively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elegy: Death Becomes Them | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

Could we somehow get both John McCain and Barack Obama to read Rory Stewart's article on Afghanistan? Stewart is knowledgeable, comprehensive and realistic. We very badly need his ideas to be discussed and, more important, implemented, especially in the face of the tactics proposed by both presidential candidates. Jane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Maddox Jolie-Pitt and landmines. That was pretty much the extent of my knowledge about this exotic Southeast Asian country before I arrived. Now, after living here, working in the microfinance industry, and traveling extensively throughout the provinces, I feel a deep connection with...

Author: By Charles A. Lacalle | Title: Finance in the Third World | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

Others see broader forces at work, forces that stem from Spain's relatively late transition to democracy. "Until recently, sports weren't important in Spain," explains sociologist David Moscoso, of the Institute for Advanced Social Studies. "They really only existed in private schools - they were for the elite." With democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain's Sporting Supremacy | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

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