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After Scandal, China Takes a Moral Inventory

In the New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow writes about the crisis of legitimacy that has hit the Communist Party of China in the wake of the Bo Xilai scandal: With Mr. Bo’s fall amid lurid accusations of corruption and murder, a sizable chunk of the party’s legitimacy has vanished among those who still believed the Communists were on the side of the ordinary person, as Mr. Bo seemed to be with his