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Chinese dissident Zhou Duo, who was imprisoned for nearly a year for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, arrived from China last night to spend a year as guest scholar at Harvard...
However, the scholar did not qualify for a passport until April 1992, after the Deng Xiaoping regime's decision to increase emigration of influential dissidents...
Zhou is one of more than a dozen Chinesedissidents to study at Harvard. Gao Xin, who alsonegotiated with Chinese troops at Tiananmen, was aguest scholar last year
Hamilton, whose previous biographies include three volumes on Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, is currently the John F. Kennedy Scholar and Visiting Fellow in the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs in Boston. He is well connected and indebted to valuable sources on both sides of the Atlantic. His acknowledgments read like a Tina Brown guest list. But his book does not have the consistent gloss of an official biography. In fact, young J.F.K. emerges as a bright, charming dilettante to whom everything came a little too easily...
...show that about 80% of the population think the Queen should pay something. She is listening, and some sort of plans are on the drawing board. It is more likely that the next monarch will be faced with paying the bill. Even such pro-monarchy stalwarts as constitutional scholar Lord St. John (pronounced Sin-gin) of Fawlsey say that "in this day and age, the income-tax exemption is pretty hard to defend." But he deplores any further changes. "The monarchy is the symbol of our national unity...