Sting

Is it possible to cause a sensation by revealing something that everybody already knows? Certainly that is what seems to have happened in March 2001, when an up-and-coming Delhi-based Internet news Web site, Tehelka.com, broadcast videotaped evidence of corruption at the highest levels of the Indian polity.

In one episode of a popular TV serial aired in China in 2001, a middle-aged Shanghainese woman works as a nanny for a young Canadian English teacher who is eager to learn Chinese and the Chinese way of life.