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Aftershocks from the huge protests that took place on June 28 in the remote town of Weng'an continue to reverberate, with news breaking Friday that both the local Communist Party commissar Luo Liaping and the chief of police, Shen Guirong have been dismissed for what official media reports described as "severe malfeasance." Such speedy and decisive action by Beijing is, to put it mildly, unusual. That reflects both the gravity of the riot, which involved up to 30,000 people, and a desire by the central authorities - currently consumed by the build up to the Olympics - to stop...
Harry's immediate problem is a new teacher, Miss Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), on assignment to bring discipline to Hog-warts. Pink and perky, she soon becomes the students' nightmare: a cheery commissar, a suburban Stalinist with a smile like a rictus...
...rechristened his Holy Family (1914) as Peasant Family. He painted and drew several masterpieces such as Tractor Workshop of the Putilov Iron Works (1932) and GOELRO (Lenin's Electrification Plan) (1930). But though their titles were unassailably in tune with the times, even an average party commissar could discern in them an inherent and uncomfortable truthfulness. Unable to get commissions, Filonov lived in poverty, occasionally working on contracts that other people procured for him in their names. Foreign collectors would offer up to $25,000 - an astonishing sum in the late 1930s - to buy a piece, but the artist consistently...
...Private property has the right to exist, but it must be under the state's control." Lukashenko has decreed his views must be taught at schools and universities, and ordered every company, state-run or private, to name a director for ideology who functions as the regime's political commissar. "The President," says a senior Western diplomat, "controls all levers of power in government as well as in society...
...idea of having one person oversee everything appears to be dead. A more palatable solution, to Bush aides, would be appointing a less powerful official--a commissar just to oversee rebuilding. That would leave the Coast Guard's Vice Admiral Thad Allen, according to a White House official, "in charge of recovery operations and stabilizing the situation on the ground." A Senate Democratic aide said such a split would probably be acceptable to Congress. Administration officials say they have talked to potential redevelopment chiefs. Possibilities include former Louisiana Senator John Breaux, retired General Tommy Franks and General Electric...