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...Most people don't realize that China has 55 ethnic minorities. An abrupt switch to a democratic system would probably prove disastrous. A strong central government exercising a bit of authoritarianism is probably not the worst evil for China at this point in time. China has made substantial progress in integrating capitalist reforms, which have brought immeasurable economic benefits. As the century moves along, the government will gradually relax its policies and adopt concepts like intellectual-property rights and maybe even human rights. I look forward to Time's regular section on China. George Lu Rockville, Maryland...
Kennedy searches for titles that will connect to his students' own life experiences and plans to progress to the classics. He says the first book that grabbed him was Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, and he looks forward to reading it with his students. In the meantime, Kennedy has started book clubs for parents and Saturday field trips to colleges, museums, movies and Broadway shows. He's trying to find a way to send students studying Spanish to Spain, and he runs a weekly group for about 25 kids who are having trouble in school...
...Washington was carrying on its foreign affairs in an orderly fashion. U.S. and Soviet negotiators held a special four-day round of arms talks in Geneva aimed at narrowing differences before the next extended bargaining session, scheduled for January. Though Max Kampelman, the chief U.S. negotiator, announced only "limited" progress, he found the Soviets ready to do business as usual. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger traveled to Brussels to attend a meeting of his NATO counterparts and turned up in Paris to defend Reagan's secret dealings with Iran...
...country. Most people don't realize that China has 55 ethnic minorities. An abrupt switch to a democratic system would probably prove disastrous. A strong central government exercising a bit of authoritarianism is probably not the worst evil for China at this point in time. China has made substantial progress in integrating capitalist reforms, which have brought immeasurable economic benefits. As the century moves along, the government will gradually relax its policies and adopt concepts like intellectual-property rights and maybe even human rights. I look forward to TIME's regular section on China...
...hand-held camera, invents Europe as a movie, Hall's novels comprise what he calls "a seven-part metaphorical history of Australia." His next, to be set in the Brisbane his family discovered on emigrating from England when Hall was 12, is, like the nation, a work in progress. "No country lives with its whole history," he says. "We only live with the stories we choose to tell." In Hall's blackly comic and underrated Hitler (2000), these stories now include a mustard gas-blinded future F?hrer who staggers off an Illawarra and South Coast Steamship Company boat...