Word: communist
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...then as a bush farmer in Rhodesia, with limited success. Lessing bridled at their strict Edwardian mores and left school at 13 - that was the end of her formal education, although she continued to read voraciously. She left home at 15, moved to England and became associated with the Communist movement. Her writing career began in earnest in 1950 with her first novel, The Grass Is Singing...
...visit has certainly prompted widespread commentary in Poland. Gazeta Wyborcza editor and celebrated anti-communist dissident Adam Michnik penned this birthday greeting: "Grass teaches how to love freedom and truth or, simply put, life, how to love people how to love literature, he can do it, and we love...
About once a month, a stream of black sedans with heavily tinted windows snakes through the gates of Zhongnanhai, the sprawling headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party, which occupies the southwestern corner of Beijing's Forbidden City. The limousines bear the 22 members of the party's Political Bureau, or Politburo. In legend, Communist Party meetings are endless, but since 2002, when Hu Jintao became General Secretary of the party (he became President of China the next year), Politburo sessions have been quite brisk. Typically, they are over by lunchtime, and then two top academics are ushered in to brief...
...Heping is well aware of these seasonal crackdowns. As a prominent human rights lawyer, he is far more familiar than most Chinese with the way the country's authorities ensure that "troublemakers" don't interrupt the Communist Party's carefully managed productions. But as he walked to his car after leaving his law office on September 29, Li had little idea he was about to get a firsthand demonstration of how jumpy the police can be. It may not be spring, but something else was on the calendar...
Indeed, on the schedule is the biggest political meeting of them all: the October 15 opening of the Communist Party National Conference. As far as China's political world is concerned, this event, which takes place once every five years, is like the World Series, Super Bowl and Olympics all rolled into one. Policy is decided for the next five years, top jobs are handed out, the losers get dumped and the winners glow...