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...nation's family-planning campaign. China has tried for more than two decades to lower its population through its "one-child" policy, but the coercive measures used in Shandong's Linyi region are now illegal. By publicizing abuses committed by local bureaucrats, Chen believed he could persuade higher-level officials to step in and stop them...
...nation's family-planning campaign. Although China has tried for more than two decades to lower its population through its "one-child policy," the coercive measures used in Shandong's Linyi region are now illegal. Chen's mission seemed reasonable at the time: If he could only alert higher-level officials to what rogue local bureaucrats were doing to try to meet low population targets, surely the higher-ups would curb Linyi's excesses...
...know somebody really well, like them and conceivably want to appoint them because they’re a good friend and citizen. Or the reverse can happen where that department is acting prejudicially,” he said. “The idea that there is some external and higher-level review that’s serious and not nominal is good.”‘THE MOST IMPORTANT THING’Summers says he believes in getting acquainted with the candidates through a multi-dimensional discussion rather than a passive interaction with their dossiers...
...courses are inexplicable and irrational. My daughter’s multidisciplinary bioethics course does not count towards the core requirement of Moral Reasoning. Her history of science course on the nineteenth century social response to Darwinian evolution does not count as a History A or B. Her three demanding, higher-level French courses do not count towards either the Foreign Cultures or the Literature and Arts requirements of the core. Instead, the core requires students to work less demanding courses into their schedules, while not counting more demanding departmental courses. Further, relatively few qualifying core classes are taught each semester...
...state-run media has published only official accounts of the tragedy, and multiple roadblocks near Dongzhou ensure that journalists don?t investigate too closely. China?s future may depend on which aspect of the Dongzhou tragedy dominates its political system: Brute force by local police, or increasing accountability from higher-level authorities...