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...from vast land and a huge population to impress the world as some tough guy whom you might hate but just can't ignore. In the meantime, Taiwan broke away from the illusion of fighting back, nearly stopped calling itself "Republic of China" in public and instead placed the focal point on its domestic development. And before long the economic performances of this "Little Dragon" were magnificent enough to wipe out its people's memory of the humiliating military defeat in 1949 by Mao's Red Army...
...years ago. The son of a German-Jewish surgeon, Bettmann was 12 when he began collecting discarded medical illustrations from his father's wastebasket. As curator of rare books at the Berlin State Arts Museum, he began obsessively photographing illustrations, lithographs, old prints and any other images within focal reach of his Leica. In 1935 Bettmann fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. with $5 and his father's best suit. He also took with him two steamer trunks of exposed 35-mm film. This trove grew into what Bettmann, a courtly scholar as well as a clever businessman, proudly merchandised...
...Weber once called politics the "strong and slow boring of hard boards." The absurdity of the MassCan festival as a focal point for student activism quickly becomes apparent if one considers its irrelevance to the larger political community. If our generation wishes to make a difference, to influence politics in positive and constructive ways, it cannot simply indulge in infantile self-assertions of prerogatives to hedonism. And if editorialists wish their work to transcend the fruitless mockery of a peanut gallery, they must forsake their stylized satire for constructive engagement with reformers around them...
...such a nonintimidating atmosphere, says Joyce Frost, a banker and first-time visitor to @ Cafe, who views cafes like this as a good place to strike up conversations. "I can talk to a guy and ask him to explain this or that to me. It has more of a focal point than most bars...
...clear," President Clinton declared today. "Affirmative actionhas been good for America." In a provocative speech sure to become a focal point of the 1996 election, the President defended existing programs, but pledged to ensure that they benefit those who really need help. He promised a careful search for a "middle ground" that preserves many race-and-sex-based preferences in federal programs while eliminating abuses and inequities. Addressing an audience at the National Archives, Clinton said: "We should have a simple slogan: mend it, but don't end it." Making a start, the President directed federal departments...