Word: freeman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even though this sharp turn toward free enterprise, seven months after the death of paramount reformer Deng Xiaoping, had been rumored for weeks, it was still greeted with wonder. "It's breathtaking," said Charles W. Freeman Jr., a former U.S. diplomat. "Nothing on that scale has ever been attempted." Others saw the change as a risky move. "Jiang is doing what Deng did not dare do," says a Chinese political analyst in Beijing. "He's putting the bankrupt state sector on the block even at the risk of social instability...
...conditions. "It's high time," he told TIME, "that white people left Africa alone and started minding their own business." Likewise Africans must "liberate themselves from themselves," divesting their lands of the postcolonial generation of malefactors and incompetents. He has given up the idea of Western salvation, says Constance Freeman, director of African Studies at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, in favor of Africans "relying on themselves...
...year. His confidence level probably outweighs him. Last February, he cold-called Skip Gates to ask for contacts in the music industry and then followed up on the names he was given. And on location this spring, clothed in rags and a turban, he went right up to Morgan Freeman and introduced himself...
...know that the South has a better handle on race relations. [But] Blacks and whites in the South have had to confront each other more," said Edward T. "Ned" Freeman '00, who has lived in North Carolina, Alabama and most recently Louisiana...
...Freeman admits he had trouble adjusting to Harvard's social scene. "There is some truth to the statement that Harvard has no social life," he says. "Here, most people are always on the move...