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...name at the top of the party roster reads Jiang Zemin, but power in China still rests in the hands of a few octogenarians. So it made sense for them to choose as party General Secretary a man known as "the weather vane." Jiang is the consummate apparatchik, whose rise to nominal power rests almost wholly on his ability to read China's swirling political winds correctly. The 63-year-old former mayor of Shanghai perfectly mirrors the party line of the moment -- slower economic reform coupled with rigid political orthodoxy -- as he made clear last week in his maiden...
Other analysts read the elevation of a political neuter like Jiang as a signal that the succession battle between conservatives and liberals is not over. "He's manageable, and he'll serve as a placeholder until this power struggle is sorted out," said an Asian diplomat in Beijing. Still other observers thought Jiang owed his new job to a very recent success: his skillful "big lie" campaign aimed at convincing many Chinese that no civilian massacre ever happened...
...obituary read like the opening page of a spy novel. Mikhail Yevgenyevich Orlov, alias Glenn Michael Souther, who had "made a large contribution" to Soviet state security, had "died suddenly" at 32. For the KGB leadership committee, which signed the article in the military newspaper Red Star last week, Orlov's death was a "huge loss." But could this Orlov really be Souther, a onetime U.S. Navy photographer who had defected to the Soviet Union more than a year ago? In calling Souther by a Russian name, the obituary seemed to suggest that the deceased had actually been a Soviet...
...lest you think I was (and still am) a lush,let me tell you that I managed to do reasonablywell in all my first-year classes--although no onehanded me a gold star for attendance. Oneclass--contemporary American history with AlanBrinkley--inspired me to read pages ofnon-required reading. Of course, Harvard sentBrinkley away the following year. He spent toomuch time with students and too little writingbooks, or something like that. So much foracademic inspiration. I signed up to be a Govmajor (Big Mistake...
...number of courses listed in the History section of Harvard's course catalogue. The department is famous for "bracketing" almost all of its courses every year--indicating that the course will be offered not this year, but next year. The department's affiliates used to wear T-shirts which read [History...