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...yuppie missals Success! and Power!, is the sort called a roman a clef by the French and "serving up something for the shopgirls" by the English. There is a patronizing quality to the central notion, which is that the reader is a lowbrow who will have naughty fun -- "coo, oi didn't know that about 'er" -- guessing which real-life celebrities are behaving scandalously behind aliases and sketchy disguises...
...have [Associate Professor of Government Jean C.] Oi to cover the field of grass roots, local politics in China. I deal with the elite level politics, and now the new chair will focus on China's relations with the world," MacFarquhar said...
Walder and Oi met in graduate school, and bothstudy aspects of contemporary politics and societyin China. Walder said their experiences closelyparallel those of many young scholars...
...several years, the couple had a commutermarriage, with Walder teaching sociology atColumbia and Oi holding a post in politicalscience at Lehigh College in Pennsylvania. Oispent her weekdays in Pennsylvania, and returnedto New York on the weekends...
...Oi said she is seriously consideringremaining at Harvard, despite the lifetime postshe has been offered at UCLA. "I have been quitehappy here," she said. "And that is why I amseriously weighing giving up a tenure offer...