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...Deng and his lieutenants think the time has come to take a much longer step toward a full-fledged market system. Under a plan that went into effect in late 1984, state industry is also run under a contract system. Central planners still set broad production goals, but they directly assign only a portion of raw materials and distribute at fixed prices only a set quota of a factory's output. Managers otherwise are allowed and even required to line up their own suppliers, decide for themselves what to make beyond the goods that must be sold to the state...
...London, Benefactors has been staged on Broadway by the same director, Michael Blakemore, with a new and mostly American cast. It builds slowly into a brilliant exposition of the troubled relationship between the elite and the masses, both in the broad public arena and in the narrow but fierce politics of the hearth. Sam Waterston portrays a young London architect who gets his big break, a commission to design public housing. Mindful that semidetached cottages are what blue-collar Britons prefer, he nonetheless opts for massive towers as the only practicable response to the vagaries of the redevelopment site. Glenn...
...research is secret or subject to prior review. Now the Safran incident has resurrected the thorny question of whose research money is clean and whose is not. One of the Harvard center's defrocked committeemen, Richard N. Frye, denounced the Spence report as a "whitewash" that ignored the broad effect on scholarly integrity. An academic who bowed out of the conference claimed, "People in the Middle East to whom we must have access would never trust us again...
...dockers--documentary filmmakers--want to reach everyone they can. "From Day One I wanted to make a film that was for the cineplex, not for the art house," says David LaChapelle, the hip magazine photographer and video director making his feature debut with Rize. "I wanted to make a broad, popular film. I come from pop art, and I wanted to make a film that was popular...
...just praying the Governor will help me," Hargrave-Thomas says. But that is no easy decision. Hargrave-Thomas has a broad range of supporters--from Democratic Senator Carl Levin to Judge Gadola, a Ronald Reagan appointee who has publicly said she "very likely is innocent." But the victim's family opposes setting her free, and if Granholm did so, she would risk being labeled soft on crime. G.O.P. state chairman Saul Anuzis last week issued a statement warning the Governor not "to release a convicted murderer due to political pressure." --By James Carney