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...dispute over the policies, it's because there's a dispute over who benefits. When the people who have benefited have to lose power, then it's very hard to predict what will happen." Given such challenges, it's probably just as well Hu managed to inject a brief moment of humor into the Party Congress. He may not have much to laugh about in coming years...
That was 1956, when 20th Century Fox released The King and I, starring Yul Brynner as the King of Siam. It was an annus mirabilis for hairless potentates but also the twilight of their brief golden age--the last time heads of state were not synonymous with heads of hair...
Since Eisenhower left the White House, voters have carved out a Mount Brushmore of Presidents--Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton--with magnificent hair. What we need is a tonsorial memorial to those giants--Ike, Winston Churchill, Mohandas Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion--of the World War II era, that one brief and very shining moment in history when baldness was tantamount to greatness...
...finished each game within five points of the league leaders.Especially notable was the play of senior Laura Mahon, who recorded her 1,000th career kill.Saturday brought on an equally challenging opponent in Penn. Despite rallies late in the second and third games, the Crimson failed to capitalize on its brief leads.Harvard continues conference play next weekend, traveling to Yale and Brown. In its previous encounters, the Crimson beat Brown, 3-1, but fell to Yale in a three-game sweep.“We’re really just going to work hard in practice and rest up so that...
...everyone showed up to the games. It was pretty incredible to be 18, 19 years old and playing in front of a few thousand people regularly.”After Wintner’s years with Canada’s junior hockey team and even a brief stint with Slovakia’s Under-18 hockey team (Wintner was born in Slovakia and retains Slovakian citizenship), a recurring hip injury finally forced him to give up on competitive hockey for good. But though Wintner had to forego his hockey career, this jack of all trades refused to say goodbye...