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...past, both countries put aside their differences for the sake of upholding their informal alliance against the Soviet Union. Now, with the Soviet threat gone, the disagreements can fester. Making matters even worse is the struggle under way over who will succeed Deng Xiaoping. "To appear weak before the U.S. puts potential successors in a vulnerable position," says Robert Ross, a visiting professor at the College of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. Testifying before Congress last week, Henry Kissinger, the advance man for President Nixon's opening to China, said, "Sino-American relations are in free fall." For a good indication...
...fiction should be a genteel escape from the encroaching horrors of contemporary life rather than a blueprint for more of the same. The weakness of this case is that it denies narrative art its taproot into the muck and mire of the subconscious; it forgets that private nightmares will fester in solitary confinement instead of finding cathartic company in the public community of stories...
...give 24 hours a day to this job; Capshaw won't let him. Says Katzenberg: "I perfectly understand the ground rules: 8:30 to 5:30, Monday to Friday, is mine. Everything else is Kate's." Even during business hours, the genial wrangling over, say, building a studio could fester into ugly rifts over long-term strategy. As the old proverb goes, "Same bed, different dreams...
...current distrust cannot be placed only on the police. The people who control Harvard--the Board, President, and Deans, must be held responsible for controlling the police department. They have the power to demand a high standard of behavior from Harvard police. Racial injustice cannot be allowed to fester at one of America's most distinguished universities...
...centers will advance systemic legal strategies to deal with problems before they fester," said Nader. "No patterns of injustice will be off limits...