Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall reflects the latest Chinese attack on the ancient bureaucratic practice of dispensing jobs and favors to friends and family members. After flourishing for centuries of imperial rule, nepotism still thrives under avowedly classless Communism. Known as taizi pai, or the princes' faction, the children of leaders attend the best schools, get the best jobs and are allowed to travel abroad. "They are always one step ahead of the pack," complains a Peking University graduate student. The privileged range from Vice Premier Li Peng, 59, the adopted son of the late Premier Chou En-lai, to junior officials throughout...
Slow dissolve. Cosby has just celebrated a notable birthday, prompting new thoughts -- and a new medium -- for America's most famous father. "I recently turned fifty," he writes at the outset of his book Time Flies, "which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, 'Dad I just can't run the quarter with you anymore unless I bring something to read...
...season, 31-21, in a battle of Ivy undefeateds to capture its fifth crown. But Saturday's upset--it was Penn's first home loss to an Ivy opponent in six years--indicates that Cornell may well be the team to beat this year in the Ancient Eight...
After claiming its second straight Ancient Eight title with a 7-0 league record (10-0 overall), the Harvard women's swimming team is looking forward to nabbing a third with a strong returning team...
After MIT, Harvard opens its Ivy slate with an away match-up at Columbia. Perennially a strong team, the Lions will be looking to regain the league title it lost, for the first time in eight years, last year. The Crimson--which finished second in the Ancient Eight behind Yale--had a hand in the Lions' downfall in '86, pulling off an early-season 4-1 shocker on the strength of a quartet of Catliff goals...