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...capitalism. And with 20 years of an astonishing average annual growth rate of close to 10 percent - over the last decade alone, China's GDP has increased by more than 300 percent - Deng's quiet revolution has transformed one of the world's poorest countries in 1949 into its seventh-largest economy 50 years later...
When I was in middle school, a friend of mine and I realized that if we asked everyone we knew for a quarter, and did this day after day, we could make for ourselves five, ten dollars a week--no chump change to a couple of seventh-graders. The plan worked great for about four days. Then everybody realized what we were on to, and the donations quickly--and deservedly--dried up. And it's not because our friends and peers were heartless elites. It's not because they had ideological objections to giving money to people. It's because...
Once renovations are completed at the Fitzgerald School, it will house its own sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders as well as those from the Haggerty School, another decision that resulted from parent negotiation...
Second, the Ryder Cup is invariably competitive and intensely stressful. Superbowls often end before halftime, and while the World Series and NBA finals are best-of-seven series, one team often wins well before the seventh game. It has been over twenty years, however, since more than two points separated the Ryder Cup teams. Thus, every single shot, whether on Friday morning or Sunday afternoon, can make all the difference. Moreover, golf demands deliberate and thoughtful, not reflexive and instinctive, activity, so the pressure weighs upon the competitors unlike any other sport...
...September 11, in the Crimson's first game of the season and the Eagles' seventh, B.C. beat Harvard...