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...this momentous event came about is the subject of Margaret MacMillan's fascinating book Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao. She begins with the historic encounter itself-a meeting on Feb. 21, 1972, that the American delegation was not sure would actually take place. Yet as Nixon was going over his briefing books and practicing how to use chopsticks en route to Beijing, the seriously ill Mao was getting his first shave and haircut in months. As soon as Air Force One landed and Nixon greeted Premier Zhou Enlai with a prolonged handshake, Mao ordered Zhou to bring...
IVAN GASKELL, Senior Lecturer on History and Margaret S. Winthrop Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts in the Harvard University Art Museums...
...Kohl was yet one more politician who wanted to leave his mark on history, at the cost of neglecting the country's failing health-care system and the problems of unemployment. Cheryl Bartlett-Büttner Niedersachsen, Germany The admiration that Czech president Vaclav Klaus' article showed for Margaret Thatcher's belief in human freedom made me snigger. I've chosen, however, to forgive him for the narrowness of his insight. Obviously, Thatcher's unswerving belief in human freedom did not extend to the repressed and disenfranchised blacks of South Africa when she refused to support sanctions against the apartheid...
...when taking a break from getting beaten up and riddling through confused if well-meaning lectures from his righteous Bay Area stepfather, works on his rock band, which exists only in his mind: "The Nancy Wheelers, [with] me on guitar, Sam Hellerman on bass and Ouija board, first album: Margaret? It's God. Please Shut...
...Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings recently promoted literacy...