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...party." At a time when its reins on China's economic, cultural and social values are loosening, the party needs as many symbols of emotional and ideological legitimacy as it can get. By eroding the icon that is Zhou, The Last Perfect Revolutionary makes plain just how scant these symbols have become...
...Chosen.") Chabon is still a literary novelist, but he's having a hot, star-crossed flirtation with the "popular" genres. He riffs on them, toys with them, steals their best tricks, passes them notes in class, etc. In Gentlemen of the Road (Del Rey; 204 pages)--which appears a scant, almost show-offy six months after Policemen's Union--he achieves something like consummation. He goes...
...scant attention civilian med schools give the question of torture is troubling, since about 70% of military doctors are recruited from those institutions in exchange for scholarships. There could be even more civilian docs in the military, thanks to the "doctor draft," a 1987 congressional authorization that lets the military call up civilian doctors in case of a wartime shortage. Preparing doctors for the possibility of service would not have to demand much of a med school's curriculum. "It doesn't have to be a full class," says Boyd. "Even five lunchtime talks would make the difference...
Rebel troops stampeded an african Union base in Darfur, Sudan, last month, murdering 10 African peacekeepers. That same week in Burma, the military regime killed a Japanese photographer and turned its machine guns on unarmed, barefoot monks. The violence in Darfur and Burma met with widespread international condemnation but scant concrete action. The perpetrators will almost certainly get away with murder...
...work, but according to Nadler, “having a level 70 character is a bit of a status symbol among people who play videogames.”Anthony R. Casagrande ’10 is one of these privileged few, with two such characters at this scant-achieved level. Tall, with dark, long curly hair and glasses, Casagrande is rather nonchalant about this double feat.“You can get a character up to 70 playing less than two hours a day for three months,” shrugs Casagrande, who plays on average ten to fifteen hours...