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Fifteen more candidates are running this year than did last year--and the current total falls less than 10 short of the record number of candidates reached...
Epps said he met on Friday with a small group of senior tutors and Harvard's chief of police, Paul E. Johnson, to talk about the problem of private parties that "spill over" into halls. He said concern about current policy arose as a result of several incidents a week...
Those eager to delve further have been rebuffed. When some Shanghai writers proposed a Cultural Revolution museum in 1986, Beijing said no. The leadership apparently fears that any thorough investigation would quickly run to criticism of the current regime and so must be prohibited. The outer boundaries of permissible complaint in China have been set. Anything may be criticized except that which really matters: the right of the party to rule. To today's leaders, the experience of the past demands a straitjacket on political dissent and helps explain why Deng so feared accepting the Tiananmen demonstrators' demand for free...
Most of those I meet seem to believe that despite the current retrenchment, China's economy is evolving into one not unlike South Korea's or Taiwan's. And while neither of those nations offers the political freedoms available in the West, both are light-years ahead of China economically. Is that really where China is going, or will the new resemble the old, a return to the Stalinist economic system that even Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to abandon? Will Deng succeed in anointing party chief Jiang Zemin as his successor, and would Jiang, in power, affirm continued economic liberalism...
Bush and the governors agreed that programs for disadvantaged children, like Head Start--which provides proper nutrition and academic preparation for preschoolers--should top the current education agenda...