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...lose face when Gorbachev visited. Problem is, the students weren't up on their Mao." Had they been, they might have come upon a 1927 essay in which the future Chairman identified atrocity as a desirable power-holding tactic. "To right a wrong," Mao wrote, "it is necessary to exceed the proper limits, and the wrong cannot be righted without the proper limits being exceeded . . . To put it bluntly, it is ((sometimes)) necessary to bring about a brief reign of terror...
...regain its strength, it slammed into Charleston, S.C., with 135-m.p.h. winds. Its swath embraced coastal resorts and barrier islands well into North Carolina, leveling seaside homes and leaving communities isolated and without power. Eleven people were killed, and insurance experts predicted that the covered damage costs may exceed $753 million, the record payout caused by Hurricane Frederic...
Although the goal has not yet been finalized, sources say that it will exceed the $1.1 billion stash Stanford hopes to net as part of its current five-year drive. Some inside observers have placed the Harvard figure at as high as $2 billion...
Although the goal has not yet been finalized, sources say that it will exceed the $1.1 billion stash Stanford hopes to net as part of its current five-year drive. Some inside observers have placed the Harvard figure at as high as $2 billion...
Although the goal has not yet been finalized, sources say that it will exceed the $1.1 billion stash Stanford hopes to net as part of its current five-year drive. Some inside observers have placed the Harvard figure at as high as $2 billion...