Word: mindedness
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In Britain, Auntie, as the network is known, is the nation's high-minded public broadcaster, 81 years old and going strong with award-winning news, documentaries, dramas and comedies. It has long snubbed crass commerce and does not run ads on its two flagship channels. Its revenue model: every...
A charmed, glamorous destiny seemed to await Mei-ling from the moment she was born into a remarkable family. (Her sister Soong Ching-ling would marry Sun Yat-sen, modern China's founder.) Their father, C.V. "Charlie" Soong, who had been virtually adopted by a group of kindly Methodist evangelists...
French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin all but declared war on the Parisian élite in an October interview with TIME, chastising French intellectuals for "not being open-minded enough about the world." It's a problem previous governments have grappled with, but last week Raffarin's government launched a...
And in the ensuing three decades, "One China," and the inexorable shift towards opening the Chinese economy to the West following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, began to change the terms of the relationship between Beijing, Taipei and Washington. Where Chiang had once represented the authoritarian strongman presiding...
Let the Scientists Meet Your story "Great Leap Skyward," on China's fledgling manned space program, reported that last year the U.S. refused to grant visas to some Chinese scientists invited to the World Space Congress in Houston [Sept. 29]. The U.S. government needs to be more open-minded and...