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…. Alan Watts, realizing that I was avoiding the podium, woke me up one night with a 3am knock on the door of my room. I opened the door to find him standing in front of me wearing a monk’s robe with a hood that covering much of his face. His arms extended, he held a lantern in on...

…d, where previous totalitarian systems failed, due to refined and nuanced strategies of repression, the exploitation of open societies, and the spread of illiberal policies in democratic countries themselves. The leaders of today’s authoritarian systems devote fulltime attention...

…urs, getting the popular support required would be all but impossible. The window is still there. But it is only barely open. I fear that I was right, as well, in predicting that our failure to secure a final peace agreement with the Palestinians at Camp David might set back peac...

…cades between Taipei and Hong Kong and America. During this time his fame as a teacher grew. In the mid- 1990s as China opened, Nan returned to the mainland. He had been invited by some of China’s most powerful families, the children of communist revolutionaries who were groping...

…e acts into mere accidents of our biology or the unfortunate consequences of bad environments. To understand evil is to open a door into its essence, to clarify its causes. In some cases, understanding may force us to exonerate the perpetrators, recognizing that they harbored sig...

…ight and reassurance, like clarinets and guitars harmonizing with saxophones and drums. It was the audience laughing. I opened my eyes. There were rows upon rows of people sitting out there in the dark, and they were all laughing together. They had understood my plight. It was ea...

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…lub on top of Ice House Street in central Hong Kong, a venue, I recalled, reminiscent of where John LeCarre had set the opening chapter of his spy novel The Honourable Schoolboy. When we spoke later, Bradsher told me that he knew Albert Ho, who had been retained as Snowden’s law...

…itting to a 10- or 20-year retirement plan that can fail due to market fluctuations outside of your control. People are open to exploring alternatives (and more forgiving of others who do the same), as many of the other options—the once “safe” options —have failed. When everythin...

…Day 5: Net Neutrality and Internet Architecture, Dialogue with Andy Ellis (afternoon session) Day 6: Weaponized Social, Open discussion with John Palfrey (morning session) Day 7: Free vs. Proprietary Code and Content, Dialogue with David Clark (afternoon session) Day 8: Governanc...

…uthis. But the Saudis nonetheless viewed the nationwide Yemeni protests in that context. In Bahrain, where many Shiites openly nurture cultural and religious ties to Iran, the Saudis saw the case as even more open-and-shut. To their ears, these suspicions were confirmed when many...

…to find some way to face the risks and Forward By The Author 04/18/16 2 manage them. This book doesn’t say how. It will open that can of worms, and others too, and try to track some but not all to their destinations. One look leads to another. This shows that I’m not an optimist...

… with whom we dealt. He annoyed then Secretary of State James Baker by wearing his kaffiyeh around his shoulders at the opening of the Madrid Peace Conference in October 1991. And over the years, he continued to annoy the Israelis too with his fiery performances on CNN -- though...

…n eighth principle was added: standing. 35 The amendment failed to pass in the 104th Congress. On January 21, 1997, the opening day of the first session of the 105th Congress, Senators Kyl and Feinstein reintroduced the amendment. 36 A series of hearings were held that year in bo...

… people could buy anything anonymously, with no trail whatsoever that could lead back to them." He called it Silk Road, opened for business on the Dark Web, and christened himself the Dread Pirate Roberts (after the Brockman, Inc. Frankfurt 2016 Hotlist -2- HOUSE OVERSIGHT 025148...