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Jiang's main break, of course, was being chosen by Deng as his successor in 1989. It didn't hurt that Deng lived on for eight years as Jiang's protector or that he eventually grew too feeble to dump his protege--the fate of two previous heirs apparent. But there's also a sense in China that the relatively nonideological, technocratic Jiang may be the right leader for a China bursting with political, social and economic tensions, that what China needs now is an adroit, adaptable pol rather than a towering titan...
...Raynaud, Einhorn's 86-year-old bridge partner, attended. He can't believe Einhorn did it, but his wife jokes with him; make sure your new partner isn't a murderer, she says. When not in crisis, Flodin, the dutiful Earth Mother, still demonstrates against a proposed nuclear-waste dump site nearby. Mayor Jack Jouaron, 68, loves it when she comes to city hall with her leaflets, flush with political passion. "For an old man like me, it was something to talk to a beautiful blond Swedish girl like her," says Jouaron, who wonders how she can be so serene...
...Jones, now married with two young children and living in California, has long said she was in this fight to win an apology, not a payoff. And with Carpenter-McMillan's backing, she rejected her lawyers' advice. The attorneys promptly filed, and were granted, a motion to dump the case. Says Carpenter-McMillan: "This case was never about money. It was always about language...
...this is how their generation rebels: they dump their parents' avowed political beliefs but pick up their parents' social-sexual mores and run with them. They smoke, drink, take drugs and have sex--earlier than we ever dreamed of doing. According to recent government surveys, 45% of 10th-graders and 31% of eighth-graders say they have taken illicit drugs; 21% of 10th- and 10% of eighth-graders say they have been drunk in the past month. In 1995, 50% of girls ages 15 to 19 said they had had intercourse, compared with 29% in 1970, when our famous sexual...
...YORK: Attention stockholders ? Don't let Friday's 254-point plunge of the Dow Jones industrial average lead you to dump your shares just yet. With the markets creeping back up in early trading, analysts are describing last week's sell-off as little more than a "minor correction...