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...vast land on the most remarkable transformation of the modern age. When death came to Deng Xiaoping last week, at 92, he was nearly blind, deaf, virtually invisible and the honorary chairman of only the China Bridge Association. Yet even in his long political twilight, he still cast a shadow over the nation, at once reassuring and restricting the Chinese as they march uncertainly toward the 21st century...
...hanged himself on Coal Hill, just east of Deng's home; the students gunned down outside Miliangku by a reactionary government in 1919; the many spirits of Tiananmen; the tens of millions who died of hunger in the Great Leap Forward. And finally there was that most troublesome shadow of all, Mao Zedong, Deng's friend and foe, his rival for the soul of a country so ancient it has had the misfortune both to forget its history many times over and to repeat it again and again. Only history will decide who was the greater...
...were a bigger problem than his enemies, and Clinton is finding it to be true. Time and again the President provided big contributors with the sort of encouragement that when presented in business circles in the Far East, might be mistaken for official credentials. This created, in effect, a shadow diplomatic corps. For businessmen abroad, a picture with the President is worth a lot more than a thousand words--or dollars, for that matter. One supporter, Johnny Chung, whose $366,000 in donations qualified him as a "managing trustee" of the Democratic National Committee, made 49 visits to the White...
Like so many other towns in this part of the Pacific Northwest--including Microsoft's hometown, Redmond--Orting was built in the shadow of Mount Rainier, and Mount Rainier has a nasty little secret. Beneath the 14,410-ft. mountain's sugary caps and forested flanks lies a mammoth, smoldering pot of magma. Summoned up from the earth's subterranean ovens perhaps 40 miles below, the molten rock simmers under the mountain at up to 3600[degrees]F. As the magma cooks the rocky innards of Mount Rainier, it slowly helps turn them into unstable clay. At the same time...
Bill Cosby displayed incredible class in the shadow of the tragic death of his son Ennis [NATION, Jan. 27]. He requested that the media show "dignity." To my amazement, the media responded. No more gory shots of his son lying dead in the road. However, I am saddened to note that such a request would probably have gone unheeded had it been someone else's son. Dignity is not allowed the common man by the media. But insensitive publicity is a practice that must stop. MIMI JONES-ELLISON Coraopolis, Pennsylvania...