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JULY
2003
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VOL.
50, No. 7 |
Cover
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DEMOCRACY BY DESIGN
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Democracy
and the Middle East, Li Xuejiang, Renmin
Ribao, Beijing
The Gulf After the Change, Said al-Shihabi,
Al-Quds al-Arabi, London
Americans Are Here to Stay, Samir Ragab,
Al-Gomhuria, Cairo
Democracy Without Islam, Iffat Idris Malik,
Dawn, Karachi
Islamist Revival, Mahmud Farshidi, Resalat,
Tehran
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Features
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CHINA:
SARS AND THE POLITICS OF SILENCE
The Chinese Plague, Chris Taylor, The Age,
Melbourne
SARS Is Making a Change, Xiong Lei, World
Press Review correspondent, Beijing
Shift in Official Mentality, Zhang Jianjing,
Zhongguo Jingji Shibao, Beijing
Epidemic Shows China’s Weaknesses,
Wang Dan, Taipei Times, Taipei
How to Test the Truth of Speeches, Wu Guoguang,
Hsin Pao, Hong Kong
CASTRO’S WAR ON DISSENT
Beyond the Son and Sand, Benoit Aubin, Maclean’s,
Toronto
Czechs Take a Stand, Erik Tabery, Respekt,
Prague
Havana States Its Case, Damián Alin,
Bohemia, Havana
A Spy Comes In from the Cold, Pedro de la
Hoz, Granma Internacional, Havana
Cuba, Human-Rights Watchdog? The Vancouver
Sun, Vancouver |
Departments
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VIEWPOINTS
Weapons
of Mass Destruction, MIA
NATIONS
Green Light: Border Opening in Cyprus,
HVG, Budapest
When the Wall Falls
Kathimerini, Athens
STATE OF THE DEBATE
Brazil: Next Election or Next Generation?
Nigeria: Obasanjo's Tainted Victory
Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Grip Loosens
Germany: Attack on the Leisure Society
Serbia and Montenegro: Case Closed
Israel: Solidarty Forever?
Japan: Constitutional Controversy
India/Pakistan: Giving Peace a Chance
PEOPLE
Harald Schmidt: Comic Blitzkrieg
Charity Ngilu: Kenya's Leading Woman
ARTS
Consolation for Algeria, Le Figaro,
Paris
Vietnam’s Gritty Reality on Film, Inter
Press Service, Rome
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COVER:
Shiite Muslims hold a protest in Baghdad asking for a greater
representation in Iraq’s new government, April 28, 2003.
(Gamma-Presse/Alain Buu)Cover design: Laura Custus.
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EYE
ON THE UNITED STATES
No Smoke Without Fire
La Jornada, Mexico City
America and Its POWs
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
BOOKS
A Woman in Berlin
Literaturen, Berlin
SOCIETY
Bleak Wedding
Ma’ariv, Tel Aviv
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Reviving Russian Science
Literaturnaya Gazeta, Moscow
Playing at Being Gods?
El Mundo, Madrid
COMMENTARY
Road Map for Legitimizing Terror
Ha’aretz, Tel Aviv
Abu Mazen’s Cabinet Must Take Necessary Steps
Al-Ayyam, Ramallah
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