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...generation" is less hostile to the communist regime than indifferent to it. "The government is all around us, but we don't pay attention," says Nie Zheng, 23, a Beijing artist and photographer. That means forfeiting job security and welfare benefits that traditionally bound even artists to the socialist system. But Nie earns enough from free-lance work to pay for Japanese cameras, CDs and designer sunglasses. The parents of Pang Rui, 18, want him to have security as a teacher or a doctor. But the university-bound student from Xian demurs: "I want to be free to earn...
Within a few years, this debacle was a laughing stock even in the Soviet Union itself; and yet, today, it is an idea which is again be enthusiastically touted as a spur of creativity. Where could such an outlandish failure of socialist statism find a new intellectual home? Where else, but the place that has always shown itself a safe-haven for bureaucratic absurdities. As though it has not done enough in preserving the tradition of pointless paperwork, generous sinecures, proliferating committees, sub-committees, and ad hoc working groups, Harvard has now decided it should adopt the animus...
...Madrid the minority Socialist government has presented a tough austerity budget calling for below-inflation wage increases for the next three years in the public sector. The British welfare system -- with costs rising 3% annually -- must be reformed to target the "truly needy," according to Britain's Tory government. Under scrutiny is $13 a week paid to all mothers for each child under 16, regardless of wealth. The government has already modified an income- support program that in one notorious case gave an unemployed insurance executive $2,750 a week for mortgage payments on a $1.5 million mansion...
...from moment to moment, The Great Depression brims with striking images and insights. If it lacks the poetry of The Civil War or the narrative cohesiveness of Eyes on the Prize, the material seems fresher and has more complex echoes for our own era. The near-miss campaign of socialist Upton Sinclair for Governor of California in 1934, the subject of one full episode, is like an event from prehistoric times; it can't happen here anymore. Yet the account of Hollywood's slick media campaign to defeat him might have come from a 1993 campaign adviser's handbook...
Members of the Harvard Greek community closely watched this week's national elections in Greece, in which Andreas Papandreou, the former Prime Minister of Greece and leader of the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), regained his seat in a victory over Constantine Mitsotakis and the New Democracy Party...