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The Lei Fengs of yesterday are no longer relevant, however, to the vast majority of Chinese today. As China modernizes at speed, its icons are resembling those of other developed nations: athletes, pop stars, entrepreneurs. To some extent, that represents a normalization of Chinese society. But it also exposes, worry...
HEALTH can be identified as part of a growing contingent of indie rock bands that channel noise-rock and new wave influences into a revivalist genre often described as “Nu Gaze.” Nu Gaze acts are prone to two common pitfalls: they can be little...
Not that his focus could ever be questioned. Vollmann toils under the hot Imperial sun and sails through polluted and abandoned rivers, risking dehydration and disease. “I was worried about two possibilities,” he writes. “The first and more likely but less...
Part of the furor over Obama's decision results from the fact that ever since President Ronald Reagan launched his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, a.k.a. Star Wars) 26 years ago, the notion of a global missile shield has become an obsession for many of his ideological acolytes. They tend to...
His daughter's death, perversely, made his career. His anger spurred an obsession with celebrity justice and helped him pioneer a new genre of journalism--one that was part memoir, part editorial, part fact. He came to love the smell and ambiance of the courtroom and had the ability to...