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China’s transition to capitalism was just confirmed by this month’s 16th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, which included Chinese leader Jiang Zemin’s amusing sophistry on the subject of letting capitalists join the Party. But Harvard is just beginning to break with academic orthodoxy, which has a view toward capitalism similar to Marxist orthodoxy. The University has started to embrace making money off of academic research...
...epee, Julian Rose continued the string of impressive freshman finishes with an 11th-place performance. Senior Derek Lindblom followed in 16th, and junior Steve Milder turned in the team’s final top-20 result in 19th...
...iron gate guarded by three men in military uniforms. Beyond stands a new, three-story brick house with tan stucco trim. Known to officials as the "Shanghai No. 1 Construction Project," the property is supposed to be the retirement home of Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin. During China's 16th Party Congress that concluded last week, Jiang, 76, became the first modern Chinese supremo to resign his position. He was expected to go off and peacefully build his library?or whatever Chinese ex-leaders might do?after ceding control to Hu Jintao, 59, Jiang's replacement as General Secretary...
...Political reform is likely to remain on hold, but China's economic liberalization continues. The 16th Party Congress blew away the last pretenses that the mainland's brand of communism stands for the working class. Last week, delegates cleared the way for capitalists?the types reviled by Marx for "sucking living labor"?to become Party members and promised financial reforms providing venture capital to entrepreneurs. For the first time, the Party named a businessman as an alternate member of its Central Committee: Zhang Ruimin, CEO of Haier, China's most successful refrigerator maker. "The Party has changed its colors," says...
...Monday ESPN told me it was unlikely. On Tuesday they said we were on the radar,” Hoover said. “But Wednesday ESPN told me that if both Harvard and Penn won they would be in Pennsylvania on the 16th of November...