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...firing him from the Politburo early in 1988. To Yeltsin, it seemed to be the end of his career. "Perhaps the hardest period of my whole life was after my expulsion from the Politburo," he later wrote. "Gorbachev didn't send me into Siberian exile or to some far-flung foreign country; he put me in charge of construction projects...
...Public attention and help will only last so long. Even with the aid of the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands and international charities, the country's far-flung provinces are neglected. Honiara's bureaucrats-foreign and local-don't get out this way. Violence in the capital eventually shows up in the remote islands as severe shortages of food, chronically ill and unschooled children and dire family poverty. This lack of administrative oversight and political will brings resentment, to be sure. But it also allows charlatans to flourish. When natural resources such as fish and trees aren...
...CURIOUS CAPITAL In 2005, in a bizarre and abrupt shift, Burma's military leadership moved the capital from its longtime home in coastal Rangoon to a far-flung jungle outpost called Naypyidaw. On March 27, in celebration of Armed Forces Day, junta head General Than Shwe unveiled the city to foreign reporters, surveying his new digs via the open sun roof of his Mercedes limo. Pastel buildings? Check. Eight-lane highway? Check. Vibrant new city for a nation of 47 million? Not yet. Those in Rangoon who still have a choice haven't budged...
...much less be acted on. And in many cases, orders issued in Beijing or a provincial capital as a result of a successful petition are ignored by lower authorities. (Tiangao, huangdi yuan, the Chinese say: "Heaven is high and the Emperor is far away." Beijing has always had enormous trouble enforcing its will in the far-flung corners of China, where the local bosses pretty much do what they want). Still, Li said that so far Chen's spirits are holding up well. "He is very strong," said Teng. "He still firmly believes in continuing to fight against the conviction...
...wiring and piping dating back to the 1930s. But in the eyes of Economics Department Chair James H. Stock, the dreary Littauer Library soon could be much more: the site of spacious classrooms and graduate offices as well as a new home for nomadic economics concentrators and their far-flung professors.The dream will have to wait.An upcoming renovation of the Fogg Art Museum has put Stock’s hope for a re-born Littauer Center on hold, possibly for the next 15 years. The Fogg’s Fine Arts Library will move into the Littauer basement...