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Much of the credit for Sichuan's transformation belongs to Premier Zhao Ziyang, a Deng protg?? who served as the party's provincial secretary from 1975 to 1980. Zhao helped introduce the contract-responsibility system, the bedrock of rural reforms, in 1977. Families and individuals were assigned plots in return for promising to meet harvest quotas. Surplus crops could be sold to the state at higher prices. Eventually, peasants were also allowed to sell the extra grain at market. The experiment worked so well that it was adopted as a national policy in late...
This year's congress, the first in New York in two decades, will draw some 700 PEN members from places as distant as South Korea and Argentina; among them will be three Nobel prizewinners and such luminaries as G??nter Grass, Nadine Gordimer, Octavio Paz and Eugne Ionesco. The weeklong festivities will feature more than 30 panels on subjects as diverse as Translating Whitman, Alienation and the State, Science Fiction, and Censorship in the U.S.A. Total tab for the event, according to PEN: around...
...data for 14 years”—the length of each of the appointed Fed board member’s terms. In that event, a Democratic president might try to curry Rubin’s favor by appointing Summers, Rubin’s protég??, to the Fed’s top job, Henderson speculates...
...leader of the Christian Democrats is Angela Merkel, who, as a protg?? of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's, is known to be a tough political fighter, if lacking in Schrder's campaign experience. Should her party succeed in September, Merkel, 50, a former physics professor who was raised in East Germany, would become Germany's first female Chancellor. She has said her immediate focus would be domestic issues, particularly the economy. (She supports loosening job-protection laws, overhauling pensions and curbing the power of trade unions.) But on international affairs, she is likely to be somewhat friendlier...
DIED. PHILIP MORRISON, 89, protg?? of J. Robert Oppenheimer and one of the youngest physicists assigned to the Manhattan Project; in Cambridge, Mass. A dynamic, legendary M.I.T. professor also known as the host and writer of the inventive 1987 PBS science series The Ring of Truth, Morrison helped assemble the first atom bomb with his own hands and later accompanied it in a car to the test site near Alamogordo, N.M., riding next to the bomb's core in the backseat. But after witnessing the bomb's impact in Nagasaki, Japan--"There was just one enormous, flat, rust...