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...Japanese skit, said she felt that "clearly the offense was deliberate. They designed it to insult the audience. No one, including the dancers themselves, could have found the skit funny." The Xi'an riots provide only the most recent evidence of the hostility and distrust some Chinese still harbor toward their neighbors to the East. In September, Chinese Internet chat rooms were inflamed over an orgy involving 500 Chinese prostitutes and 400 Japanese businessmen reported by state press to have taken place in the southern city of Zhuhai. Many Chinese assumed the businessmen were not merely indulging in vice...
During his tenure at Harvard Law School (HLS), Ely served as the school’s first chair in constitutional law and wrote his most influential book, Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review...
Since 1978, Democracy and Distrust has been cited more times than any other legal work, according to a study published in the January 2000 edition of The Journal of Legal Studies...
Tribe said that Democracy and Distrust was “the most important contribution” to the subject of judicial review in the last 25 years...
...tend the wounded, sometimes burnishing Chiang's image with her social poise. It was Mei-ling's great and abiding gift to remain equally at home with the silvery pleasantries of the social world and with the adamantine realities of the political. That powerful combination, fired by an implacable distrust of communism, enabled her to remain a central figure in Chiang's government even after the Nationalists were driven to Taiwan when the Communists triumphed in 1949. Upon the 1975 death of her husband, who in 1978 was succeeded as President by her stepson Chiang Ching-kuo, Mei-ling returned...