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...many years later, Zhao can even joke about his experience. Working in the countryside, he says, while pointing at his stomach, rid him of an ulcer and improved his stamina. "I wasn't too unhappy then," he quips, "because you don't use your brain much." The experience brought him closer to Chinese rural life. "Agricultural is hard, back-breaking work," he recalls. "When you pull a handcart of grain mired in mud, it takes a lot of willpower. It gave me a sense of what peasants do." The experience seems to have given Zhao what James C. Thomson...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Journalist's Long March | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

Then-captain Jenny Stone '80 reportedly went to Reardon and asked him to get rid of Moses. The stories that emerged seemed incongruous; no one questioned Moses' ability as a coach. He said he thought his firing had been a "mistake," while Reardon refused to comment. No one would talk about the personality clashes that had plagued the team...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Return of Moses | 12/9/1980 | See Source »

...gets the royalties. The RSV has been a success largely because of its preservation of much of the evocative language of its antecedent, the King James Bible of 1611. So after the education division decided to prepare a new edition of the RSV, it instructed its translators to get rid of as much "masculine-biased language" as possible while retaining the King James "flavor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unmanning the Holy Bible | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...University's need to assuage the fears of the Third World community by denouncing the report is clear. The action on divestiture, a Third World Center, and increasing the number of minority Faculty members would also help rid students of any doubts about Harvard's opposition to racism at a time when minority fears are at a fever pitch...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: A Common Burden | 12/5/1980 | See Source »

...been rather more trying for his girl friends. A few years ago, for example, Lady Jane Wellesley, a self-assured brunet, was discovered to have spent a weekend at one of the royal residences. The press descended en masse on the Chelsea travel agency where she worked. "Get rid of them and don't come back at all if you can't," warned her angry boss. Said a relative afterward: "It was as if she had been found guilty of some ghastly sexual crime or murder or robbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Sport of Charlie Watching | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

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