Word: rule
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Madeleine K. Albright has just announced that soon after speaking at Harvard's Commencement, she will be heading to Hong Kong to represent the United States in the ceremonies marking Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule...
Harvard fundraising officials have said that as a fundraiser's rule of thumb, libraries are difficult to raise money...
...many of us, the young people in particular, who grew up in Hong Kong under the shadow of China, 1997 has long been a line of foreclosure on Hong Kong's future. Anticipation of the historic transition from British colonial rule to Chinese socialist rule has already reached its height on the small land with a population of six million. In a sense, the changeover is like the end of millenium pushed three years forward...
...Cambridge City Council passed a home-rule petition Monday night recommending that a 1 percent transfer tax be levied on all residential real estate valued above $300,000 at the time of sale...
...Christopher had what amounted to standing orders to brush Lee off onto lower-level State Department officials during his visits to Washington." Tung had hoped to counter what he said were unduly pessimistic predictions about the future of freedom and democracy in Hong Kong once it falls under Chinese rule. Giving court to one of the future administration's biggest critics could show the White House is willing to take a hard line toward Tung, who announced last week that the new government will require police approval of demonstrations and allow political parties to be banned. Although Tung blamed...