Word: doak
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...never been before. The question is: Can his wit, charm and sheer ruthlessness hold China together? Should Mao die before him, Chou could probably administer, but would be unable to rule. Conversely, if Chou should die first, the aging Chairman would be a ruler without administrative power. Right now, Doak Barnett argues, Chou "has the advantage of being the only truly top survivor. He will probably make it, and do a good...
...touchdown runs against Purdue to set an individual single-game rushing record of 350 yds. It was the 22nd time this season that a major-college back has run for 200 or more yds. in a game; by comparison, in seasons past such celebrated runners as S.M.U.'s Doak Walker and Syracuse's Jim Brown never once topped the 200-yd. mark...
Unhappily, as Sinologist Doak Barnett points out in his book, A New U.S. Policy Toward China, Washington faces a dilemma. "Every possible course of action," writes Barnett, "involves some undesirable costs and risks." There is, in short, no easy solution...
Other leading scholars include the University of Chicago's Political Scientist Tang Tsou, author of a provocative analysis of U.S. failures to understand China during and after World War II; Chicago Historian Ping-ti Ho, an authority on social mobility and population trends; and A. Doak Barnett, now at Washington, D.C.'s Brookings Institution, a protean expert on Chinese government and foreign policy. Barnett long urged a U.S. China policy of "containment without isolation...