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...DIED. Bo Yibo, 98, last surviving member of China's politically influential Eight Immortals; in Beijing. The group of veteran Communist Party leaders, purged during the Cultural Revolution, was elevated to top positions in the '80s and '90s under Deng Xiaoping. Although a conservative who supported the crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters, Bo steadfastly embraced Deng's financial reforms--which shifted China toward a market economy--and helped successfully fend off Marxist hard-liners determined to regain economic control...
...bitch.” His teaching of high school students in New York, by contrast, was more unorthodox, he said, describing that they spent class periods crafting excuse notes for creative writing assignments, assigning themselves grades, or studying the “deeper meanings” of Little Bo Beep and Humpty Dumpty. They also invented obituaries for their teachers—“not [one] had a peaceful passing,” he added. Never confining his teaching to a syllabus, McCourt said, “I had no methods. I shot from the hip...I was able...
...DIED. Bo Schembechler, 77, gruff, opinionated ex--University of Michigan football coach who won 13 Big Ten championships and over 21 seasons became the winningest coach in Michigan history; in Southfield, Mich. His death darkened the mood of the most important college football game of the year, No. 1 Ohio State vs. No. 2 Michigan, which Ohio State won, 42-39. In 1969, his first year at Michigan, Schembechler sent ripples through the college-football world by leading the struggling Wolverines to a 24-12 upset over Ohio State, coached by his friend and mentor, the irascible Woody Hayes. That...
...three races in the red state redoubts of Missouri, Tennessee and Virginia. "In those Senate races the Democrats are going to lose the men," says Democratic pollster Celinda Lake. "The question is will they win enough of the women to make up for it." Strategists in bo> th parties are parsing female demographics for advantage. Democratic strategists working in the Virginia and Tennessee races say married women are a key target group in both states, as they comprise a large number of the undecided votes there. A top GOP strategist says of the three crucial states: "Older white women...