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...Economic statistics for the first quarter of 2009 were surprisingly positive, leading some economists to conclude that the rate of contraction was slowing and that China might be on the road to recovery. Power-generation and transportation statistics, key indicators of the economy's direction, registered modest increases in March after months of decline. Banks lent money at record levels, investment showed signs of recovery, and auto sales grew nearly 3.9% in the first quarter compared with the same period last year, thanks to subsidies for new-car buyers and lower sales taxes. The results led Wen to conclude that...
Take the case of a project already under construction in Yan'an, the end point of the Long March, a place steeped in symbolism for Chinese people. A few steps from a memorial to Zhang Side - a soldier who, after being killed while hauling charcoal in 1944, was picked by Mao Zedong to serve as an example of selfless communism - is the entry to a tunnel. Someday it will be part of a highway that leads west from Yan'an. The key word is someday. The Shazuimao tunnel, which faces a mountain that bears giant characters in Mao's calligraphy...
...inmates in a mental hospital.” Despite its controversial décor, Quincy House led in popularity, with 29 percent of freshmen identifying it as their preferred place of residence, compared to the 19 percent who listed Adams, according to a Crimson poll conducted in the March of 1959. A SECOND ADMISSIONThe select upperclassmen that were chosen to inhabit the newly-constructed residence were charged with the task of establishing a unique House character. “Creating a new House is an adventurous undertaking,” Quincy’s first master John M. Bullitt...
...Harvard welcomed with open arms the arrival of Fidel Castro: revolutionary, liberator, and, for one night, the center of campus life.After a guerrilla campaign, the young Cuban leader had defeated then-President Fulgencio Batista’s forces and ousted the dictatorial government in January of that year. By March of 1959, Castro had accepted an invitation to speak at the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ annual convention in Washington D.C. He then planned an 11-day tour of North America, speaking in New York, Montreal, and at Harvard.Although Castro may have initially been invited to the United...
...Tiller was in court earlier this year, charged with evading a law that required two separate doctors' opinions before a late-term abortion could be performed. In March, a Wichita jury acquitted...