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...Twenty days after the massacre of June 4, Jiang Zemin officially assumed the post of the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. On the same day, he declared that "the foremost important political task at this moment is to thoroughly suppress the counterrevolutionary riot" and that "for those conspirators who planned, organized, and led the turmoil--and those counterrevolutionary thugs who participated in the riot--we must punish them according to the law, strike them with resolution and show them no leniency whatsoever...
Though these musicians are heralded as some of the foremost exponents of neotraditionalist jazz, drawing from the influential hard bop artists of the fifties and sixties, they defy such categorization. The tune "Twenty-Seven Summers," in which McBride played a five-string, electric fretted bass, marked a dramatic shift in style. This was the least well-received tune of the set: the audience seemed taken aback by the ethereal, echoing sound of the electric bass and the fusion elements of the medium-tempo arrangement...
Visiting Professor of Chemistry Addison Ault says that throughout his 35-year career, he has been a teacher, first and foremost...
Things seemed just perfect for Robert L. Johnson last week. His BET Holdings Inc. (1996 sales: $133 million), the nation's foremost black media conglomerate, posted its 13th consecutive quarterly profit increase. As the cash floods in, Johnson is living a media god's life. He has built a mirrored glass-and-steel headquarters in a poor neighborhood of Washington and acquired a lavish 133-acre horse farm in Virginia hunt country. He has also planned to buy the company and offered shareholders a deal that values BET at $800 million. His concept: transform BET's golden logo into...
...Federal Reserve, and green he was. Over at Treasury, the politically savvy but market-naive James Baker spooked traders every time he moved his lips. Today we have the same Fed chairman, but he could not be a more adept helmsman. At Treasury, Robert Rubin, America's foremost fixed-income trader in his days at Goldman Sachs, can coldcock a decline in the dollar with a few choice words...