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...complimented Hu on the official confession. "The problem," he said, "had been how to assign blame yet preserve Mao's merits, though flawed." After three sessions, the Central Committee came up with the compromise that now rules Chinese thinking: there is crime and there is error, and they are different. Mao was not a criminal, said Hu. Mao was guilty of error; he had betrayed Mao Thought, contradicting himself. His merits outweighed his mistakes. Thus, the official history of disaster, the dethronement...
...machete." Karen (JoBeth Williams), who used to be a closet poet, is now the restless wife of an ad executive. Michael (Jeff Goldblum) made Alex famous by writing about him in the Michigan Daily; now he profiles 14-year-old blind baton twirlers for PEOPLE and tries vainly to assign himself a story on the lost hope he sees around nun this weekend. "You think everything's boring," he snarls to his editor over the phone. "You wouldn't say that if it was the Lost Hope Diet." Meg (Mary Kay Place), a lawyer, got tired of public...
Greene, for example, ordered that AT&T must assign its telephone-equipment patents to the operating companies. This will enable the operating companies to order their communication components from other suppliers rather than just from the Western Electric unit of AT&T. The judge also directed AT&T to help local phone companies recover the estimated $2.6 billion that it will cost to provide equal-quality access to long-distance carriers like Sprint or MCI, which compete with A T & T. If the local companies are unable to pay off the costs by 1994 through fees charged to the longdistance...
...writes Sloan, "people who had come to know her would no longer speak to her." People who worked with her at Bendix claim she took the expertise of colleagues and seems to have presented it to Agee as hers. As vice president of corporate and public relations, she would assign several writers to do a speech for Agee, choose the best version and, if he liked it, claim that she wrote it. Aside from a brilliant academic record (Wellesley College, Phi Beta Kappa), Cunningham, in Sloan's view, had simply paid no dues and done nothing of substance...
...said that in order to alleviate school systems' "severe problems," administrators should design more demanding curricula, assign more homework, lengthen the school year, and upgrade faculty training and salaries...