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...while social unrest itself is unlikely to threaten the Communist Party's dominance, with the Hu administration so heavily invested in social harmony, it could become vulnerable to infighting if grassroots unrest gets significantly worse. Scholar Min Xinpei of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C. argues that the real danger for China is likely to come from discord among the top leadership rather than street demonstrations. As Pei writes in a recent Foreign Policy article, internal Party turmoil could render authorities "less capable of containing social instability and thus creating a vicious cycle of events that could...
...Liberation Navy base, only reconfirmed the authors' notion of foreign states bent on encroaching upon China. "If Obama wants to talk about world peace, not sending troops abroad and so on, then what is the U.S. Navy doing in the South China Sea?" says Wang Xiaodong, a nationalist scholar who contributed several chapters to Unhappy China...
...normal kind of production at all. Plain black costumes, all very simple in a very small, dark place. We all stood round an orange box." The play was, as Dench says, "a breakthrough." The minimalist production, directed by Trevor Nunn, spawned a thousand imitations. Of McKellen, Shakespearean scholar Bernice W. Kliman gushed: "No other actor has so well depicted the existential nausea of a man who has chosen evil...
...descriptions of how silence can build tension in comedy was a very interesting aspect of the talk,” said William M. K. Stallings ’10. The “Conversations with Kirkland” Series was founded in 2002 by Peter V. Emerson, resident scholar of Kirkland house and former Kennedy School of Government student, and co-housemasters Tom C. Conley and Verena A. Conley. Since its inception, the series has hosted casual talks between students and a wide range of guest speakers, including several actors and famous politicians...
Nikolay Petrov, a scholar at the Carnegie Moscow Center, believes those seeing a split are missing the fact that the government has to appeal simultaneously to different groups. "The names on this list are just signals. Some of the names will signal to conservatives that Medvedev is conservative, while some names will convey that he is liberal. The presidential reserve is decorative...