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...result was a fertile cultural topsoil in which classical music could take hold and grow. When China began allowing students to go abroad in the 1980s, many swarmed to the music capitals of Europe and the U.S. to study in the classical tradition. Long himself left China in 1988 and spent five years at the Hochschule Academy in West Berlin, then several more years in Hong Kong as part of the small classical music community there. In 1990 and 1992 he visited Beijing and was given the opportunity to conduct the Central Philharmonic Government Orchestra - a party-run symphony with...
...have faded. Better now to draft policies that address the new concerns of the middle class: economic stagnation, environmental protection and health-care reform. "It's pretty hard to go back to the old Republican arguments," says Frank Fahrenkopf Jr., who chaired the Republican Party for most of the 1980s. "The American people are looking for change that works...
...future elections. In his study, which was released earlier this year, Hopkins analyzed gubernatorial and U.S. Senate elections between 1989 and 2006 that featured either a black or female candidate. Using three pre-election polls per candidate, Hopkins found that the Bradley effect was last seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In recent years, he said, the effect has gone away. “In the last ten years of elections, I can’t find any evidence that there’s a systematic difference in how candidates poll and how they perform in the election...
...ecology that Mickey Kaus of Slate calls the "undernews": stories, true and false, that percolate in the blogs or tabloids until the "respectable" press is forced to soil its white gloves, just as what happened with the John Edwards love-child story. (Wow, how long ago was that? The 1980s...
...CityStep’s favorable reception prompted the organization’s leaders to establish an endowment in the late 1980s in order to bolster its long-term health. Just last week, CityStep was designated a “Shared Interest Group” by the Harvard Alumni Association, meaning that the program’s leaders will now be able to reach out to all alumni...