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What's left after 1989?

NEW YORK: Twenty years ago, when the Berlin Wall was breached and…

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Roman Polanski's American Dream

NEW YORK: What purpose is Switzerland serving by jailing the renowned Franco-Polish…

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The Re-Birth of Japanese Democracy

NEW YORK: Moods and fashions in Japan often arrive like tsunamis, typhoons,…

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A Black and White Question

NEW YORK: In the afternoon of July 16 two men appeared to…

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Damaged Democracy

NEW YORK: Even before the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, decided to…

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Lessons from Tiananmen

NEW YORK: It is a chilling thought that exactly twenty years after…

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We Don't Torture

NEW YORK: Asked in September 2006 whether there was anything wrong with…

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China's burden

CHENGDU: Last month saw the 50th anniversary of what Tibetan activists like…

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How free is speech?

NEW YORK: Bishop Richard Williamson has some very peculiar, and frankly odious,…

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The Jewish conspiracy in Asia

TOKYO: A Chinese bestseller, entitled The Currency War, describes how Jews are…

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