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...month to decide when Hu would replace President Jiang Zemin, ordinary Chinese were finding the selection of the country's next supreme leader largely irrelevant. After more than two decades of economic reform, China's centralized system has given way to clusters of fiefdoms operating outside Beijing's shrinking sphere of influence. Absolute power, once exemplified by the personality cult of the Great Helmsman, has devolved to regional party bosses who now hold sway over citizens' everyday lives. "Hu is being groomed to run a country that is increasingly ungovernable," says Wu Guoguang, a former Communist Party aide now living...
...University, Deerfield Academy or Wandell Elementary School. For the amateur athlete, one of the greatest motivations is to play for something bigger than one’s self, to toil for something that dwarfs a single individual’s importance. My opportunity to do this in the athletic sphere largely ends today...
...things have turned out, any use of the word jihad in the public sphere, the Harvard sphere, would have produced such a strong response. Once the word jihad was uttered, such a reaction was inevitable, sadly,” Yasin says. “If anything, this has convinced me more and more that this is a speech that needs to be given...
...prior to turning to the international sphere, the Maine native served in all three branches of government in the United States, working his way up through the legal and political system to eventually serve as the Democrat Senate majority leader for six years...
While Mitchell’s service in the U.S. government was impressive in its own right, his most memorable achievements have come in the international sphere...