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...Mostly [I'm running] because I like the class, and I like being a student at Harvard, and I always want to keep track of the class," said marshal candidate Stuart Raphael, a Currier House resident active in the Undergraduate Council...
...past, the number of marshal candidates has usually ranged from 75 to 85, Koivumaki said. He said he feels the heavy turnout--the most since 1982, when 110 seniors ran--is because of students' increased interest in senior activities...
Those who lose out in the election for marshal can take part in their house elections to become house representatives to the Senior Class Committee, which plans events during Commencement Week...
Among the 131 senior party officials who resigned were a few supporters of Deng's modernization drive and daring economic reforms. The majority, however, belonged to an older, revolutionary generation whose primary loyalties were to the past. Gone were half a dozen aging military men, including the ailing Marshal Ye Jianying, 88, who had helped Mao Tse-tung plan the Long March of 1934-35 (see SPECIAL SECTION). Gone too was Politburo Member Deng Yingchao, 81, the widow of Premier Chou En-lai and the country's highest-ranking woman official. Also on the retirement list were three former Ministers...
Still, some members of the Old Guard stubbornly cling to power. Such veterans as President Li Xiannian, 76, and Marshal Ye Jianying, 86, a member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party Politburo and vice chairman of the party's military commission, continue to command a following in the military establishment. While they accept the reforms, they are said to harbor some doubts about their pace and scope. Among the most formidable of the pragmatists' adversaries is Chen Yun, a central planner who masterminded the Soviet-style economic programs of the '50s. He is said to believe that...