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When China's President Hu Jintao appeared last weekend on a flag-bedecked dais alongside his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, and called for national unity, many Chinese instead heard evidence of discord...
...been dismissed from his post for allegedly misusing hundreds of millions of dollars from the city's pension fund. Chen's removal and the detentions that have, in its wake, ensnared other power-brokers believed to be allies of Jiang, have fueled theories that that President Hu and his predecessor are engaged in a factional power struggle. Thus when Jiang and Hu appeared together last weekend to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Communists' historic Long March, many speculated that they were making a show of solidarity to mask factional conflict...
...predecessor Cox—who continued teaching into his 70s—is any guide, Tribe will likely remain at Harvard for many more years. His popularity among students isn’t waning—even after he admitted 80 to his constitutional law class this year, 150 were left on the wait list. And next year he will take on a brand new teaching challenge: a dozen Harvard undergraduates in a class called “Sex, Love, and Death in American...
There is a certain amount of political as well as psychological wisdom to what Steele says. The most basic rule of presidential politics is that you run against your predecessor. If Obama, 45, chooses to run in 2008, his consensus seeking would stand in stark contrast not only to the hyperpartisan Bush Administration but also to the histrionic, self-important style of baby-boom-generation politicians. Or it could work against him. An old-time Chicago politician told me Obama's thoughtfulness might be a negative in a presidential campaign. "You have to convey strength," he said...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences still faces a projected $75 million deficit for Fiscal Year 2010, interim FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles said yesterday, despite assurances from Knowles’ predecessor last year that the school would be running a surplus at the end of the decade...