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...Albert Cheng, who is president of the Chinese Culture Foundation: "The exclusion acts devastated our families, but they provide the only record here." Miraculously, Cheng, 49, has located five of his family's 32-volume genealogy books, the traditional records kept by village elders, and has used them to reconstruct 3,000 years of familial past...
...course we can't know for sure, but there are clues in each of these four places, common denominators among five boys headed toward the brink. It's now possible to try to reconstruct their motivations--a task made more urgent by the saturnalia of lawmaking under way. Mississippi has made murder on school property a capital crime, and Oregon may begin requiring a 72-hour holding period for kids who bring guns to school, as Kinkel did the day before the shooting. Members of Congress are pushing a bill that would crack down on dealers who sell firearms...
...Student Council also created several programs to help war-torn Europe reconstruct its cultural life. The year 1948 marked the second year of the Salzburg Seminar, a school of American culture and civilization...
...Jimmy Carter. Buried, after one term, in the Ronald Reagan landslide of 1980, widely scorned as the micromanager of malaise held hostage by the Ayatullah, Carter in his post-White House incarnation performed a cunning reversal. An engineer by training, he did not so much reinvent himself as reconstruct, in another dimension, the job from which the American people had fired...
...were absolutely right). The radicals were happy because in their opinion he was an obstacle to the republics' independence and too cautious in enacting economic reforms. (They too were correct.) This man with the stain on his forehead attempted simultaneously to contain and transform the country, to destroy and reconstruct, right on the spot. One can be Hercules and clean the Augean stable. One can be Atlas and hold up the heavenly vault. But no one has ever succeeded in combining the two roles. Surgery was demanded of Gorbachev, but angry shouts broke out whenever he reached for the scalpel...