Word: legacyism
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For the historian, therefore, Deng's death raises a different but also absorbing set of echoes and parallels to the past. The 15 years between 1978, when Deng returned to power after two major purges that failed to remove him from active contention for the leadership, and 1993, when his...
His conservative rivals took advantage of the massacre to pull back the reforms--or at least slow their pace. And as Deng retreated into a self-critical silence, they seemed to succeed. But Deng, though increasingly frail, fought back. In February 1992, sensing that the populace was exasperated by conservative...
TIME's China watchers had been planning a special report on the legacy of Deng Xiaoping for months, but it wasn't until 10 p.m. Wednesday--early morning in the U.S.--that Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz got a tip that China's ailing leader might be dead. As FlorCruz...
Yet our leaders mourned, in so doing freeing the dead man from his historical legacy, allowing him a bit of legitimacy on his deathbed that was wholly undeserved.
Like many of those who control corporate America and share his warped mindset, Leo does not wish to confront the discomforting fact that each and every day millions of black Americans are unfairly denied employment and promotions, or insulted and intimidated at work. His arguments are not only unconvincing and...