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...barely speak. Deng has chosen Jiang as the man to follow him, but no one can supplant Deng as "paramount leader" until he dies, and his death will unleash a succession struggle. In the meantime, China is in a nerve-racking state of limbo, facing grave problems, such as rampant official corruption and widely divergent income levels, and fretting over a whole generation that remembers the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. At moments of particular skittishness--perhaps following a new gambit by a Jiang rival, an incident of disorder or Deng's taking a turn for the worse--the state steps...
...this point the lesson breaks down, as the poor Pupil gets a toothache but is forbidden to leave the room. The Professor becomes a rampant spewer of knowledge, screeching at his Pupil with increasing ferocity. He ends up stalking her across the room with a knife in his hand, prodding her to pronouce "knife" in French, Spanish and Neo-Spanish. Her pleas of a toothache are too much for the Professor, who slashes at her and kills...
Caught up by the promises of new technology, people often forget the importance of external factors such as education and awareness. While I doubt we'll see technology capable of preventing rampant and unauthorized distribution of pictures via the Internet, we can prevent that distribution to a large extent simply by educating the Harvard community...
Well, that was then. These days the misery index is just above 8, the lowest in a quarter-century, theoretically signifying a Nirvana-like America. Yet President Clinton spends much of his time saying he shares our pain. And this isn't just another example of his famously rampant empathy. Conventional wisdom has him presiding over seething economic discontent, even as he presides over an ongoing economic recovery that makes Europe and Japan envious...
...WOULD ASK CHIRAC, "EXACTLY FOR whom does France need a nuclear deterrent?" Surely, the problems of rampant terrorism and growing public distaste for your political hubris cannot be affected by such tactics. The world does not need a Western Vladimir Zhirinovsky. MICHAEL ZUCKER Tel Aviv Via E-mail...