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With the Crimson behind in both the score (8-6) and touches (55-52), the only way Harvard could complete the rally was for Papailias to win over Wellesley's number two player, Grace Bai...
Papailias (14-4 on the day) did just that, slashing Bai, 5-0, to give Harvard the lead in touches--although it still trailed, 8-7, on the scoreboard...
...Bai attributes his success to lower prices, higher quality and his willingness to work long hours. To express his gratitude to the government for giving him the opportunity to launch his own business and improve his family's status, he joined the Communist Party last year. On the wall of his waiting room, he proudly displays the evidence of his success: a framed certificate of his designation by provincial authorities as a "model worker" and a carefully mounted photo of himself with hundreds of other young Chinese who attended a party meeting in Peking last summer. In the picture...
Ever since Harbin's newspaper began to publish stories about him, Bai has become a local celebrity. He smiles ruefully as he describes how scores of young people have walked into his shop just to meet him. "Some ask me for advice," he says. "Some ask me to teach them, some show an interest in my life." Bai has also received more than 300 fan letters, including a few marriage proposals...
Despite his pride in being the first member of his family to achieve such success, Bai remains pessimistic about the future of free enterprise in China. He believes that while private ownership may be an immediate necessity, state control will provide more economic growth in the long run. "As a theory, private enterprise is opposed to Marxism," he explains. "But in China at this stage, we need all sorts of forms of production. As socialism develops toward Communism, my job will be less and less important." What will Bai do then? "With the development of bigger factories...