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THESE changes were largely targeted at defeating the group that nominated Tutu. Since 1986, alumni dissatisfied with Harvard's continuing attachments to the apartheid regime in South Africa have sought to elect candidates from the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) slate to the 30-member Board, which is elected by all University alumni...
...tart flavor. The product is innocent enough, but the Craisin name has turned raisin producers sour. California growers, who spent $25 million last year promoting raisins, think Craisin is a rip-off. "If it's a cranberry, why don't they call it a cranberry?" asks Don Martens, a member of the California Raisin Advisory Board...
...midst of the Cultural Revolution, when an aging Mao Zedong fomented social unrest in the name of class struggle. A family portrait shows Wuer, age 1, holding up a copy of Mao's Little Red Book. Throughout the rigors of the period, his father remained a loyal member of the party who spent years translating the works of Marx, Lenin and Mao from Chinese into Uighur. When thousands of China's intellectuals were forced out of the cities to work as peasants in the countryside, Wuer's father went willingly. The strain and exposure left his legs paralyzed for years...
...might be no second round. A majority of voters, eager to reject the whole Communist system, scratched all but two names off the ballot; 33 candidates were defeated and their seats thrown into limbo. That unexpected result triggered a constitutional crisis, since the electoral law requires a full 460-member Sejm but provides no mechanism for filling the vacant seats. Until these legal obstacles are resolved, the Parliament cannot fill the presidency, a powerful new post that was expected to go to party leader Wojciech Jaruzelski. Among the defeated national-list candidates were some of Jaruzelski's most reform- minded...
...Solidarity would help secure that cooperation in return for its legalization and a share of power. The centerpiece of the agreement was the cumbersome electoral law that granted the Communists and their allies 65% of the seats in the Sejm and allotted 35% to the opposition; a new 100-member Senate, with veto power over all legislation, was to be chosen in open elections; a powerful presidency, with control over the armed forces and security apparatus, would be filled by the Communist-controlled Parliament. Solidarity allowed the party and its allies a guaranteed majority on condition that the next legislative...