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...would seem to be a banner year for birthdays. On July 4, as everyone knows, the Statue of liberty celebrated its 100th birthday. On September 4 through 7 and again from October 6 through 12, Harvard College will celebrate the 350th anniversary of its founding...
China's Communist Party turned 65 last week, but it was not an altogether happy birthday. The celebration came in the midst of a heated debate among party factions over the progress of the reforms launched under Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping, 81, to introduce free enterprise into his nation's economy. In the Chinese press, the openness and variety of criticisms leveled at the party over the past two months have been breathtaking. "The only area that is effectively barred from discussion," said one Western diplomat, "is the party's right to rule...
...four golden days and gaudy nights, she was the still point of a turning, kaleidoscopic world. Immovable, she gazed upon the revelry with her forthright, rather stern expression. While not exactly a wallflower at her own birthday party, she appeared slightly aloof, distant. What's the big fuss? she might have been thinking. The question is understandable: after 100 years there is little the old girl has not seen before. But as an immigrant herself, she is perhaps even more sensitive to the curious ways of her adopted country, silently indulgent of good old American exuberance, excess and, yes, glitz...
...imprisoned his predecessor Christopher, who had already imprisoned his predecessor Leo V. Sergius then had both Popes strangled in jail. He also fathered an illegitimate son by a 15-year-old heiress named Marozia, who eventually got the debauched son chosen as Pope John XI soon after his 21st birthday. John's nephew, who was even more debauched, duly became John XII when barely...
...more akin to royal consort and heir apparent to her husband President Nicolae Ceausescu. In his grim dictatorship, she increasingly appears to be the power behind the throne. Already Elena Ceausescu, 67, is the object of a personality cult that rivals that of the 68-year-old President. Her birthday, like his, is a national holiday, her portrait waves in street parades, and the Rumanian media resound with her praise. She is variously hailed as the "woman-hero," the "party's torch," the "guiding spirit behind science and culture" and even "mother of the fatherland...