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...waved banners declaring support for Deng Xiaoping, then senior Deputy Premier. The demonstration quickly turned violent and was suppressed by authorities, who pronounced it "counterrevolutionary." The incident marked the beginning of the end for Mao's Gang of Four and served as a harbinger of Deng's long-awaited ascent to power -- and of the social and economic liberalizations that spawned the latest round of unrest...
...break with tradition by recommending beneficial changes. Yet I feel compelled to remind you that it has been many decades since we were at odds with the emu. Indeed we have equaled and, some say, even surpassed the status of that annoying bird. Without a doubt our amazingly rapid ascent to the forefront of God's creatures deserves an enthusiastic round of applause. We as a people are enormously self-sufficient and adaptable--not to mention extraordinarily bipedalistic. At Harvard, we are now in a secure position--financially, spiritually, and evolutionary--to abandon once and for all the dreaded Harvard...
...political ascent continued last week when the ruling People's Action Party elected him to its powerful 14-member central executive committee. Naturally, speculation intensified that Lee was being groomed to succeed his father, who has ruled Singapore since 1959 and says he will step down at age 65. Before the younger Lee could head the government, however, he would have to leapfrog First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, 45, who boasts a strong party following...
Messner has been called tactless and egocentric by his critics. After his solo ascent of Everest, for example, he told admiring fellow South Tyroleans, "I do this for myself because I am my own fatherland, and my handkerchief is my flag." On talk-show stints, he tends to shout down other guests. Indeed, a mountaineer who has known him for years thinks fame has been hard on a man who finds peace in solitude: "Everyone wants to get in touch with him. Everybody wants to shake his hand." He is divorced from West German Journalist Uschi Demeter, and lately, says...
...nothing new for private donors to pitch in for public education. Just last week, the Rev. Andrew Greeley, best-selling author of novels like Ascent Into Hell, announced his plan to set up a $1 million fund to assist Catholic schools in Chicago in which minorities constitute at least half the enrollment. But the practice of taking responsibility for the future of entire graduating classes of schools and even of school systems is a new idea, one that appears to be gaining support around the country. Responding in part to sharp cutbacks in federal funding for student aid, benefactors from...