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...abandon the Olympics, much as the ancient Greeks did a thousand years ago, realizing their great concept was just no longer practicable. Let us return the athletics to the athletes; let us send the politicians back to their politicking and, most of all, let us try to address some of the problems that created the crisis of the Olympics in the first place...
...loser, say China's leftists, is all too often idealism. Tolerance, they believe, is encouraging decadence; capitalist practices and perks, they suspect, are tempting Chinese citizens to abandon the Maoist values of struggle, self-sacrifice and subservience to party in favor of such Western vices as self-interest, elitism and cynical moral pragmatism. Last year a Shanghai newspaper printed what it took to be the inspiring story of Zhang Hua, a medical student who lost his life while trying to save a drowning peasant. More than 1,600 readers wrote to the paper, many of them indignant...
Jessie, a New York Jew who fought through the civil rights wars with her husband, wants to sell. Not sell out, just abandon a pose of high-minded poverty that is not accomplishing anything, and move to a decent house in an integrated neighborhood. Carll won't budge. Then his sister and brother-in-law, affluent segregationists from Birmingham, are killed in a car accident. Their two children, mannerly young racists, move in with Carll and Jessie. More space is needed, and Carll acquiesces sulkily when Jessie finds a larger house in a middle-class neighborhood...
...idea of mind control is particularly in vogue, the world of semiotics is changing. There is a split both within the academics and those, like Blonsky, that have gone out into the marketplace. "Things are mutating and changing and growing," says Jardine, adding that the Europeans have begun to abandon the subject as it continues to grow here. Yet, Blonsky decides the world of academic for not giving up its "vow if non-intervention," and getting involved in the real world. Blonsky reportedly makes thousands of dollars consulting for companies...
Needless to say it would give China great "face" were its doctrine accepted by all five nuclear powers. Such a development would also offer the best prospect for getting China to abandon its present standoffish attitude towards negotiations among the nuclear powers...