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...quiet ways, some change is at work; its most advanced expression is in Hungary. Communist Party Chief Janos Kadar, who demonstrated his fealty to Moscow during the 1956 uprising, in 1968 launched the East bloc's most successful economic reforms. He began to decentralize the economic system, introducing some free-market management methods and profit incentives. Later, the state allowed private ownership for some small and middle-size businesses. In effect, Kadar entered into an unwritten contract with the Hungarian people, allowing them a measure of freedom in their domestic lives as long as they left politics to the party...
...movie. But images that allude to it flutter through the film, in the splaying tail feathers of a dying duck, the folds of an accordion and the breathtaking flight of a parachute harnessed to the back of a bicycle. When a real peacock appears in the movie's quiet coda, it declines to spread its plumage on demand and the onlookers move on, disappointed. Its splendor, like the Gao children's dreams, remains unfledged and all-too-rarely glimpsed. Fortunately, this is not the case with Gu's talents. He unfolds them masterfully and his Peacock is a marvel that...
...with a remarkable lack of stealth. Four days after the death of Pope John Paul II, Father Benedictus removed his 125 cc Honda motorcycle from the courtyard that doubles as his church. In full view of the neighbors?and, he assumes, plainclothes police?some 400 worshippers paraded down a quiet lane to the courtyard bearing candles and a memorial photograph of the deceased pontiff. During mass, they wept, prayed and lined up for communion. Authorities made no attempt to stop them. "As long as we don't protest or set off firecrackers, we're basically left alone," says Father Benedictus...
...recently as Thursday, sophomore Caitlin Cahow was a defender on the women’s hockey team, enjoying her offseason in peace and quiet. Saturday, however, she was forced to undergo a baptism by fire, stepping in between the pipes for the Harvard women’s lacrosse team and essentially learning...
...kind of quiet for a moment and then everyone started screaming,” said junior Arin Keyser. “The Brown fans...were in disbelief...