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Transfer of power is particularly dangerous in China, where traditionally it went hand in hand with humiliations and killing. The pattern was quite simple. Warriors conquered power, then found it would not function without scholar-bureaucrats, "mandarins." The aging warrior-leaders of the Standing Committee know they too must create a mandarinate. A few years ago, thinkers and scholars were "stinkers"; today, they are desperately needed. But can the old men shift power to them without upheaval...
...said, "the terminal building was covered with flames and many people were fleeing." Senators Gary Hart of Colorado and William Cohen of Maine were about to arrive in Managua for talks with Sandinista officials when the attack began. Their U.S. Air Force C140 transport was ordered into a holding pattern and then diverted to Honduras. The Senators arrived in Managua later in the day and surveyed the damaged airport with Nicaraguan officials, who wanted them to see what U.S. aid to the rebels was doing...
...room or a house without intimidating us with its size. Nor does Prairie School ornament appear in the self-conscious manner in which post-modernists now glue or paint it on their designs. Wright and the Prairie School's precise geometric decorations-the leading on the glass, the pattern of brick and wood panels and curtains, the carvings of wood or stone-all seem organic, as much part of the object as the markings on the wings of a butterfly...
...that 40% of women killed were murdered by their partners, and 10% of men by theirs. (Many of the women acted in self-defense.) When it comes to squabbling around the house, women give as good as they get. But a domestic spat is not battering, which involves a pattern of escalating abuse in a situation from which the victim feels she cannot escape. Because they are usually physically stronger than their wives, men are less likely to be battered; for reasons of pride, they are also far less likely to report it. Sociologist Murray Straus, an expert on family...
Climbers have seen the pattern again and again: three years of stupefying ascents, of moving confidently upward along cracks so subtle and fine that normal fingers cannot even feel them, and then the prodigy loses his magic, backs off, gets serious about a love affair, goes to graduate school, finds a reason to avoid those nearly supernatural 5.13 pitches (rock climbs are graded in difficulty from 5.1 upward, and until the present generation came along, 5.10 was considered the unreachable ultimate...