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...After being purged by Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution as a capitalist roader and an archrevisionist, Deng rejoined the Chinese leadership in 1972-73 under the auspices of Premier Zhou Enlai. It was just at that time that the U.S. arrived permanently in Beijing with its Liaison Office, headed in 1974 by George Herbert Walker Bush. When these two men met, Deng?the short, tough revolutionary from Sichuan in central China?and Bush?the tall, ambitious and smart ?litist from America's Northeast?the chemistry was immediate. Deng saw Bush as an American who some day would lead...
...banking service that HUECU advertises for student groups on its website has no service fees, unlimited monthly dual-signature checks, free online and 24-hour automated telephone banking and a designated representative who will serve as a student group liaison. The accounts are not eligible for debit or credit cards, loans or online bill payments. An HUECU representative will advise student groups with significant assets on how to divide their money between an interest-bearing but restricted money market account which will earn 1.25 percent interest on deposits over $50,000 and a checking account, McLoughlin said...
...three impossible decisions to make," says John Sasso, Kerry's old Boston political friend who is his liaison to the Democratic National Committee. "If he'd made the wrong choice on any one of them, he wouldn't be here today. I don't think two out of a hundred politicians would have been able to make all three correctly under such intense pressure--but those are the sorts of situations where John is at his best." That is, of course, the party line among John Kerry's friends. He is great when his back is against the wall...
...would be easy to chalk up the entire family squabble to racism. After all, a primary reason the Hemings liaison was widely doubted before the DNA results were published was that testimony from former black slaves was dismissed by white historians as unreliable gossip. Blacks were not the only ones who supported the story, however. Numerous white journalists in Jefferson's time reported the story and believed it to be true. Jefferson's fellow Founding Father John Adams, who had seen Hemings' beauty firsthand (she was known as "Dashing Sally"), also seemed to believe that Jefferson had had an affair...
...York Law School, is one of many scholars who have concluded that there is enormous support for the case that Jefferson and Hemings were intimately involved. Her 1997 book, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, provides a critical analysis of the historical evidence supporting the liaison (see box). In reviewing Jefferson biographies that dismissed the relationship, Gordon-Reed says, "I realized that a lot of what they said was based on prejudice, and they were not taking the words of black people seriously." One example is the skepticism with which historians assessed an interview with Madison Hemings...