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...Par for the Course...
...Chou apparently played a role in some major policy decisions up until the last few months of his life, but most of his responsibilities had already been entrusted to First Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, who will almost certainly be appointed Premier. True to his reputation as an administrator par excellence, Chou apparently managed even his own passing from the political scene with dexterity. Sinologists expect no power struggle over Teng's assumption of higher office?at least not soon...
...rape a Tactical Force policeman in drag. Kubrick also ignores a potentially exciting view of the 1760s--the Hogarthian underside of English society. All told, the carefully composed landscapes and Kubrick's use of a new German lens to film in candlelight just save this film from being potboiler par excellance. That Kubrick's visuals can overcome such poor acting is a credit to his skill with the camera, but certainly not to his powers as a director. Jeff Flanders...
Bertrand Russell insisted on living in the best of all possible worlds and responded to imperfection as if it were a personal insult to his intelligence. That stubbornness made him the pain in the neck par excellence of modern times. Or perhaps, as Tait speculates, it made him a sort of saint - "God's gad fly, sent to challenge the smugness of the churches with a righteousness greater than their...
Longerrange, to mollify the French, the U.S. agreed that some tune or another there should be a return to fixed rates, which−except in special circumstances−would oblige each nation to keep its currency at a specified par value. The French, for their part, set no deadline. Vague as all this sounds, the agreement holds at least some promise of calming world currency markets...