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...during President Richard Nixon's historic visit to Peking in 1972. In that document, the U.S. agreed that mainland China and the island republic of Taiwan, which is governed by the Nationalist Party that fled the mainland after its defeat by the Communists in 1949, constitute "one China." Implicit was the understanding that the U.S., while not severing its ties to Taiwan altogether, would scale them down progressively. In that spirit, the Carter Administration in 1979 closed the U.S. embassy in Taipei and established full diplomatic relations with Peking...
...times. Marglin says his conversion to radical thought occurred shortly after he received tenure in the spring of 1967. Prior to that, he had perceived no inherent contradiction between his liberal weekend politics and his working week mainstream economics. Only latter, he says, did he recognize that the implicit ideology behind the latter was untenable with the former. He had dedicated himself to developmental economics for its challenge. "We had been taught, and we believed, there were no economic problems in the United States and similar countries. The economic problem here was to persuade the few Republican politicians, who still...
...wait to see if a man is convicted of rape for a second time before suspending his medical license? Likewise, why does one of Harvard's hospitals have to wait until an employee receives national attention for his rape conviction to formally fire him? Why doesn't committing the implicit lie of not mentioning a rape conviction in a letter of recommendation sent to a children's hospital warrant an immediate expulsion from the state doctors' society...
...known as one of the most hawkish voices in her inner circle, the Cabinet member said that "Margaret's heart may be telling her to leap into the fray, but her head is telling her that you cannot militarily operate in the Southern Hemisphere without U.S. explicit or implicit support...
...against being telephoned at home by students and colleagues. His complaint is fair. If he has indeed made it clear that his privacy should be respected in this way, then violations of that injunction are rude. Perhaps he is justified even in his suggestion that this understanding should be implicit within the academic community or in any other professional or work setting. Of course he must know that the individual policies of faculty and graduate students vary so widely here that it must be difficult for students to perceive any general rule...