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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Communist Party’s powerful Central Organisation Department, its top personnel management organ, has pledged to apply a tougher yardstick to the exceptionally rapid promotion of cadres following a spate of nepotism controversies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JANET MASLIN, on May 12th, 2013 The author Dan Brown plays games with time, gender, identity, famous tourist attractions and futuristic medicine in “Inferno.”
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By David Frum, on May 6th, 2013 This weekend we posted an item here on Gov. Rick Perry and the University of Texas. The author has accepted a position as a law clerk, and on reflection decided that the expression of such political opinions was inconsistent with his work commitments. The article has been removed.
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By David Frum, on May 5th, 2013 To read WEB DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk in near proximity to Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery is a disorienting experience. Up From Slavery is a book written in a direct style, using a simple vocabulary and homely humor. Yet on every page, an alert reader is conscious of the author's artifice: of the careful self-presentation, of the tight control of every word, of the "oh the story I could tell" omissions, of the steely self-disciplined smile. If Booker T.
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The governor of Tokyo apologised to Muslims yesterday after saying Islamic countries have nothing in common but Allah and “fighting with each other”. Naoki Inose, whose city is bidding for the 2020 Olympic Games, was forced into the climbdown after telling The New York Times that the Islamic nations are belligerent and overly hierarchical. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER, on April 22nd, 2013 Jane Austen was a seminal thinker in the as-yet-unnamed science of game theory, the author Michael Chwe maintains in his new book.
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By , on April 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The simple pressure-cooker bomb apparently used to maim and kill people at the Boston Marathon on Monday is cheap and easy to build. An article in al-Qaeda’s online magazine, Inspire, explained how to “make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom” in 2010. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has announced a state takeover of Detroit’s finances and appointed as manager a corporate bankruptcy expert who called turning around the destitute city the “Olympics of restructuring.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Noah Charney, on March 6th, 2013 The author of ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ on her meticulous researching and interviewing process.
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> “A National People’s Congress member has brought the proposal to the parliament meeting, but only as a ‘suggestion’,” Li Yinhe said. On multiple occassions since 2003, she has entrusted NPC members to submit her proposal on gay marriage on her behalf. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 4th, 2013 Join us for a live chat on Tuesday, March 5, at 11 a.m. EST, with Ben Goldacre, the author of ‘Bad Pharma,’ a new exposé of the pharmaceutical industry.
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By , on February 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Nobel literature laureate Mo Yan has hit back at critics who accused him of being too close to China’s government, saying in a newspaper interview he does not write on behalf of the ruling Communist party. The writer scooped the Nobel in October for what judges called his “hallucinatory realism” and has won praise from literary critics, but is also fiercely attacked by Chinese dissidents who brand him a Communist stooge. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The official, Haruhiko Kuroda, a veteran of global financial circles and current head of the Asian Development Bank, will be nominated as the bank’s governor to take over next month, according to a ruling party lawmaker. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Dozens of renowned international and local writers gathered on Friday at Myanmar’s first international literary festival to celebrate the country’s new-found freedom of expression. Authors hailed the festival – supported by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi – as a breakthrough for creativity after years lost to stifling censorship rules under the generals who ruled the country for decades. “There was no freedom at all before,” said poet Saw Wai, who was jailed under the former junta for writing a satirical poem about the regime. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Stanley Karnow has died at age 87. A son of the author, Michael Karnow, told The Associated Press that his father died in his sleep Sunday at his home in Potomac, Maryland. Stanley Karnow wrote the definitive book and television documentary about the Vietnam War and later won a Pulitzer for a history of the Philippines. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 17th, 2013 Author Daniel Coyle made a host of doping claims against the cyclist in two bestsellers. See the biggest.
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By , on December 30th, 2012 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A book reveals historical gems buried in New Zealand’s national archives, including a bizarre second world war plan to create a “tsunami bomb” and military files detailing supposed UFO sightings. Author Ray Waru said he wrote Secrets and Treasures to highlight the material publicly available at Archives New Zealand in Wellington, where almost 100km of shelf space is crammed with historical artefacts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on December 21st, 2012 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece meted out harshly worded front-page editorials about internet regulation this week, a move that might signal the party’s new campaign to impose further controls on its booming social media community. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on December 14th, 2012 Egyptians in President Morsi’s hometown are among those preparing to vote on the draft constitution backed by the President’s Muslim Brotherhood.
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By , on December 13th, 2012 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US lawmakers and Chinese friends of author Liu Xiaobo on Wednesday appealed for his freedom, vowing not to forget the world’s only jailed Nobel laureate two years after he won the prize. Lawmakers voiced regret that little had changed in the past two years during a hearing on Liu Xiaobo at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, which is tasked with examining Beijing’s human rights record. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Top Communist Party unit to tighten rules on rapid promotions
<!– google_ad_section_start –> The Communist Party’s powerful Central Organisation Department, its top personnel management organ, has pledged to apply a tougher yardstick to the exceptionally rapid promotion of cadres following a spate of nepotism controversies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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