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...traumatized, this time by the aftermath of Tiananmen. But by mid-decade Deng Xiaoping had reignited domestic economic reforms and China had normalized its place in the world after its post-Tiananmen isolation. Politics, however, remained frozen and the heavy hand of the state remained evident. Only during the present decade, in the waning years of Jiang Zemin's rule and under Hu Jintao, has the Communist Party begun to experiment with very limited political reforms. My discussions with those party officials involved with crafting the "democratic" reforms makes clear that there are strict boundaries to how far they will...
Three main lessons present themselves. First, the lightly regulated global financial system that has evolved over the past three decades is dangerously fragile. Second, the U.S. government is capable of keeping a financial panic from snowballing into a complete economic disaster. Third, the government has not yet shown itself to be capable of doing much of anything to make the financial system less collapse-prone in the future. (There's a link, by the way, between the government's failure in No. 3 and its success...
...customers present were prepared for the Oktoberfest-ivities at the pub, and some were surprised by the elaborate celebration...
...we’ll do that by working on the correct things and making sure in these tournaments we do what we do in practice. In general we need to worry about things that will kick in three months from now instead of worrying too much about the present...
Laura Jaramillo ’10, who was present at the meeting with Uribe and signed the letter, said she was impressed by the way in which he responded to each of their individual arguments against a leader remaining in power by amending the Constitution’s term limits...