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Gary J. Feldman, chair of the physics department, moved to resubmit the proposal to the Faculty Council for further consideration, but the motion failed by an overwhelming margin...
...many other responsible elected officials are now following through with the political acts we set into motion by going to the polls. They look to us for guidance in the everyday world-shaping process of politics. And we must consciously recognize and claim this process if we are ever to make...
...seismic changes Deng set in motion were daring, thrusting one-fifth of mankind in a Great Leap Outward from the crushing, dogmatic isolation of Maoism into a quasi-capitalist economic miracle. The China that comes after Deng will grow inexorably from the complex of roots he planted firmly in the nation's soil. Yet his work is unfinished, and the next China will have to come to terms with the fundamental contradiction in his hybrid creation. Even as the country embarked on a headlong pursuit of free-market economics, Deng insisted it be done under the iron fist...
...changes that the filmmakers have made but the quality that the size and sound of the film take on in a large theatre. There's also the simple feeling of being there, of commemorating a landmark event in the change (for better or worse) of the motion picture industry from the director-driven, art-oriented days of the early seventies to the big-budget, star-vehicle, action-adventure, special-effects nineties. A country of 260 million people has few pieces of shared experience, and it is somehow comforting to participate in one that doesn't involve an assassination...
...Swiss blunders culminated in a moral crusade to track down stolen wealth hidden away inside the vaults of Zurich and restore it to the victims of the Holocaust. The proximate cause was money, but the soul-searing intent of the men and women who set the hunt in motion was to peel back the veil time had cast over the evils of Nazism and expose the truth...