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When great nations have grand plans, the little people know to run for cover. In the early '50s, Americans had the notion to save Vietnam from communism; by the end of their crusade, 2 million Vietnamese were dead. In the 1930s, Australian settlers ruled that half-caste Aborigines were to be removed from their homes and raised by whites; this policy of eugenics by abduction, which continued until 1970, left generations of indigenous people literally and culturally orphaned. In each case, white people pursued social experiments they considered noble, and darker people suffered...
...People. In the beginning of a re-education campaign worthy of Deng, the University put on a “Start-Up Workshop” to educate Harvard scientists in the art of making companies that make money for the University. Deng’s greatest contribution to Chinese Communism was the directive that “to get rich is glorious.” Now Summers is bringing a new entrepreneurial spirit to a Harvard that has long been resistant to breaking academic orthodoxy against encouraging profitable research...
...Political reform is likely to remain on hold, but China's economic liberalization continues. The 16th Party Congress blew away the last pretenses that the mainland's brand of communism stands for the working class. Last week, delegates cleared the way for capitalists?the types reviled by Marx for "sucking living labor"?to become Party members and promised financial reforms providing venture capital to entrepreneurs. For the first time, the Party named a businessman as an alternate member of its Central Committee: Zhang Ruimin, CEO of Haier, China's most successful refrigerator maker. "The Party has changed its colors," says...
Induction of Central European states into the European Union (E.U.) represents a new step toward European unification since the decline of communism, diplomats from four nations said last night at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum...
...DIED. ALINA PIENKOWSKA, 50, diminutive, soft-spoken founding member of Poland's Solidarity labor union whose crucial role in the 1980 Gdansk shipyard strike began the country's successful struggle against communism; of cancer in Gdansk. The Polish government tried restricting news of the Gdansk strike by cutting off telephone lines from the yard. Pienkowska spread the word by contacting friends in Warsaw, leading to a wave of strikes across the country...