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...confirming a belief among analysts that, for the moment at least, Xi has a slight edge in the race to lead China. (If previous practice is followed and no unforeseen events intervene, Xi will succeed Hu at the 18th Party Congress in 2012, while Li will take over as Premier.) Hu also lost the services of the formidable Vice Premier Wu Yi, who fronts China's critical trade negotiations. Wu, 68, was forced to step down because of the same informal retirement age of 68 that was used by Hu and his supporters to rid themselves of several other entrenched...
...wartime drama From Here to Eternity introduced sex appeal, however tame it may seem by contemporary standards, to 1950s moviegoers. Previously cast for roles that accentuated her genteel English demeanor, Deborah Kerr gave a sultry performance that earned her a spot in history as one of Hollywood's premier sex symbols. Too tall to pursue her first love, ballet, Kerr also made her mark in roles like the starched governess in The King and I and a hopeless romantic in An Affair to Remember. She was nominated for six Oscars but never won. The Academy finally granted her an honorary...
...What have you done to help relations with China? -Mandy Deng in ChinaI normalized diplomatic relations with China in 1979. Immediately after that, Deng Xiaoping, who was the premier of China, asked if the Carter Center would help him in the democratization of these little villages-there are about 650,000 of them and they are not part of the Communist party structure. So he and subsequent governments have ordained that those villages can have a democratic election. The Carter Center has had a contract with the government of China now for roughly 10 years to monitor the compliance...
...Premier Pacific's Wollack says that developing vineyards, rather than having to persuade reluctant owners to sell the "family jewels," allows the company to control its growth. His company has 10 vineyards approaching maturity and 19 on the way. Wollack needs 15 to 20 mature vineyards before taking his company public--a goal he expects to reach in the next two years...
...about his time as a close adviser and confidant to President John F. Kennedy ‘40 at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Speaking on the 45th anniversary of the confrontation, Sorensen, now 79, recounted how he personally drafted the memos that Kennedy sent to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during the intense negotiations. The audience was tense as Sorensen spoke of the caution he had to use. “When I was drafting the letter to Khrushchev, I knew that if I provoked him, his response would be too horrible to imagine,” Sorensen...