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...conducted the first exclusive interviews with former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev and the Dalai Lama of Tibet, among others...
Students graduating at the time regarded the presence on campus of the nation's premier military leaders as logical given the post-war atmosphere on campus and Harvard's reputation...
...Burns was quick to label it a law-enforcement matter and say, "I don't see why this needs to complicate U.S.-China relations." But there are suspicions. Norinco, the Chinese company that manufactured the AK-47s, is a vast military complex supervised by the State Council, headed by Premier Li Peng. The company that sold the weapons, Poly Technologies, is a trading company directed by officials with links to the armed forces and the leading political families in Beijing. One of its executives, He Ping, is married to Deng Xiaoping's daughter. The two companies denied any involvement with...
Edward Albee and Sam Shepard came of age in an era when playwrights could be stars too. Albee's excoriating family drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? shook Broadway out of its comfy seats in 1962 and established him as the premier American playwright of the post-Arthur Miller generation. Shepard (though his work has largely been ignored by Broadway until now) was the most acclaimed and charismatic playwright to emerge off-Broadway in the 1960s and '70s (The Tooth of Crime, Curse of the Starving Class). Now both authors are being celebrated with Broadway revivals of Pulitzer-prizewinning...
...award was established by the family of Joseph R. Levenson '44, a premier historian of China's intellectual history at Berkeley who drowned in 1969 while attempting to save his son from drowning...