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First word I STARTED thinking about generational change in the highest levels of power in the world when my better half made a discovery during Vladimir Putin's celebration of his 70th birthday this year (he was born on Oct. 7, 1952). The strongman and warmonger is actually her junior. Her cohorts in the 1940s baby boom generation (born in 1948, 1949 and 1950) are similarly amazed that Putin is still that young. And then they also discovered that China's Xi Jinping, the newly crowned general secretary and paramount leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC), is even younger than...
