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More than anything else, this drama of so many endangering their lives for a common good triggered the vast outpouring of solidarity from a people used to tending to their own.
"The students have struck an ancient chord in Chinese history," explains Thomas Bernstein, a China scholar and chairman of Columbia University's political science department. "It is the idea of the scholar-official who remonstrates with the emperor about some evil in the kingdom that the ruler should put right...
Thus China's turmoil is not surprising in light of its inhabitants' mounting frustrations. Nonetheless, true revolutions, as opposed to coups or intermittent mass protests, are extremely rare and all but unheard of in situations in which the state wields so much force. Without a core of . ideologically inspired revolutionaries...
T.E. LAWRENCE: THE SELECTED LETTERS edited by Malcolm Brown (Norton; $27.50). David Lean's recently rereleased Lawrence of Arabia is one of the greatest epic films ever made. But its subject remains an enigma. He tells his own story here in letters, nearly two-thirds of them previously unpublished, and...
Moreover, Barnard charges, Rostenkowski has threatened to scuttle any attempt to pass a House resolution granting his subcommittee the authority to get the records on its own. The IRS insists that it has complied as fully as the law allows by turning over 12,000 pages of documents and making...