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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Head Tutor for the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department Robin D. S. Yates has begun to compile a list of Harvard students in China...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Students in China | 6/7/1989 | See Source »

Dowling cited the success of designating tutors to deal with sexual harassment, begun this year, as an example of how well house-based advising on such issues can work...

Author: By Carolyn J. Sporn, | Title: House Tutors to Advise On Race Relations | 6/7/1989 | See Source »

...farm life means that the army has been forced to enlist more urban youth, who are more inclined to question orders. Despite such lures as family benefits and monthly bonuses, local officials often find it difficult to produce their annual quota of recruits. As a result, some | communities have begun to impose fines on youths who refuse to enlist. "Recruitment is even harder than family planning," a military officer complained. "You can drag a person to the hospital ((for an abortion)), but you can't drag one into the army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Backed by the army and Deng Xiaoping, Beijing's hard-liners win the edge over moderates in a closed-door struggle for power | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...Wright, the outcome was predictable, but the collapse of yet another Democratic leader was sudden and unexpected. Barely had Wright's lawyer, Stephen Susman, begun his opening statement to the House ethics committee last week, pleading that even a dead man deserves due process, when all parties seemed to be looking for a way out of the spectacle of a Speaker of the House of Representatives going on trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Many Will Fall? | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...more pressure from the outside. James Fallows, author of More Like Us: Making America Great Again, contends that the Japanese economy is chronically biased in favor of corporate profits and investment abroad at the expense of the Japanese consumer's living standard. Example: the Japanese have only recently begun to do away with mandatory Saturday office hours. Dutch journalist Karel van Wolferen, in his recently published book The Enigma of Japanese Power, argues similarly that Japan is run by a near conspiracy of Big Business and bureaucracy, whose only concern is to expand global market share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Japan Play Fair? Is the Door Open Wide Enough? | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

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