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...DIED. Wang Guangmei, 85, elegant, outspoken former First Lady of China who was jailed during the Cultural Revolution; in Beijing. After a falling-out with Mao Zedong, Wang's husband, President Liu Shaoqi, was labeled the country's "No. 1 Capitalist Roader," while the sophisticated, well-educated Wang was accused of being an American spy by the jealous Jiang Qing, Mao's wife. Publicly humiliated by the Red Guards and imprisoned in 1967, Wang was freed in 1979 to find herself a widow-Liu had died in prison 10 years earlier. Rehabilitated in 1980, she remained a faithful Party member...
...Disarming Kim Jong Il would require China to starve and break his regime. Why doesn't Beijing act? Because China has a prime interest in maintaining a friendly communist ally as a buffer between itself and U.S. forces in South Korea; as a roadblock to a dynamic, capitalist, reunited Korea; and as a distraction keeping America tied down in the northern Pacific, while China maneuvers to regain Taiwan and extend its influence throughout the Pacific...
...help Warner's run for the White House. For Jordan, and others like him in both Washington and places like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, Warner's credentials as a popular former Democratic governor of a Republican state - and, prior to that, a hugely successful venture capitalist - made him the Democratic Party's best hope to capture independent and swing voters in a 2008 general election...
...alienate the very moderates it should be trying to convince. The University’s policies and views tend to be politically liberal by national standards, yet the Guide presents every faction of the University (except, perhaps, the Guide’s 13 contributors) as stooges of evil capitalist forces. In fact, the campus remains home to a large corps of disillusioned liberals with an identity crisis, for opposing any single liberal cause is enough to be labeled a hard-nosed conservative by much of the radical left. The Guide is correct about one thing: There is room for extensive...
...people personify what this school stands for.” Since 1968, the awards have been presented to alumni who have led outstanding careers while making meaningful contributions to the world. The four honorees were Sir Ronald M. Cohen, who received his MBA from Harvard in 1969, prominent venture capitalist and Co-founder and former Chairman of Apax Partners; William H. Donaldson, who graduated from HBS in 1958, Co-founder and former Chairman and CEO of Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette, and former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Ann S. Moore, a member of the MBA class of 1978, Chairman...