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...Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, or CASS, acknowledges that the recent assertions of rights over land by peasants are potentially transformational. "They're not widespread now but they could become symbolic ... of peasants ceasing to depend on the law and instead depending on 'natural law.'" Journalist and author Chen Guidi is more blunt: "If word of these declarations starts to spread to peasants around the countryside, it could become uncontrollable." Chen, with his wife Wu Chuntao, is the author of Will the Boat Sink the Water? - a widely praised investigation into conditions in rural China. (The book is banned...
...Will the Boat Sink the Water? Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao The title of this searing account of corruption in China's countryside comes from a saying of Emperor Taizong's: "Water holds up the boat; water may also sink the boat." It is often quoted by Chinese officials to describe the nervous symbiosis between China's government and its peasantry. But as Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao make clear, the economic reforms that have buoyed China's urban centers have done little for its 900 million peasants. Banned shortly after its publication in 2004, this muckraking samizdat has sold...
DIED. Rachele Mussolini, 89, shy, fiercely loyal widow of Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini; of a heart attack; in Carpena di Forli, Italy. Rachele Guidi met Mussolini in 1906 while working in the kitchen at his father's inn. He threatened to commit suicide if she would not marry him, but they lived together five years before the union was made legal in 1915. During Il Duce's rise and reign from 1922 to 1943, Donna Rachele remained at home, keeping house and rearing their five children. After the dictator was shot by partisans and hanged by the heels...
Back at second is Bob Guidi, a .306 hitter in 1963. Dale Grinnell (.266) holds down the shortstop spot, with Wally Rogers (.273) rounding out the infield. Steve Karp, team leader in RBI's, is behind the plate...
Harvard was hitless up to the third inning, when third baseman Mike Drummey sent one screaming into deep left-center field for a stand-up triple. Following him, Terry Bartolet slapped an easy grounder to Tufts shortstop Guidi, but Guidi booted it. Drummey scored and Bartolet, safe on first, made it 2 to 0 on Dave Morse's double to center before the inning was over. The Harvard rally came with...