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BEIJING: Vice President Al Gore began a four-day visit to China with soft words and poetry straight from Foggy Bottom, as he prepared to meet President Jiang Zemin and Premier Li Peng in hopes of building a productive rapport with Deng?s successors. "The landscape of U.S.-China relations is filled with many rivers,? Gore intoned, ?some flowing together, others flowing apart. Such variety befits the interaction of two great nations and civilizations." Translation: the Administration believes it can make more progress with the Chinese on tough political issues such as human rights in private one-on-one meetings...
...after the adrenaline surge of the NCAA Tournament? April, "the cruelest month" according to Eliot's The Wasteland, is cruel in that it is a time of transition; the winter months have finally passed, but the warmth of summer has yet to arrive. In terms of sport, the two premier teams at Harvard--women's basketball and men's hockey--have concluded their respective seasons, and the spring sports are in their infancy...
DIED. CHEDDI JAGAN, 78, President of Guyana; in Washington, where he had been hospitalized after a heart attack. An avowed Marxist, Jagan was elected premier in 1953, and again in '57 and '61, while Guyana was still a British colony, but his grip on power was repeatedly sabotaged by British and U.S. machinations. Jagan later adopted free-market principles, and after nearly three decades in opposition, made a comeback in 1992 in what was hailed as the country's first free election in 28 years...
Kelly Black has come a long way. She has risen from the depths of an injury-plagued early career to become the co-captain of the Harvard women's basketball team and one of the premier post players in the Ivy League...
...People's Republic. Yung has parlayed those connections into an empire that spans property, aviation, telecommunications and civil works. During the predicted buying spree in Hong Kong before and after the colony reverts to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, Yung, 55, could prove to be Hong Kong's premier shopper...