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...MOST EAST ASIANS, CHINA IS THEIR GREECE AND Rome: the great fount from which their civilizations sprang. Today, as China struggles to find new directions with the help of neighbors, it still expects its due in homages -- even though two recent visits to Beijing showed how hard it remains to reconcile the past and present. Emperor Akihito, the first Japanese sovereign ever to set foot in the Middle Kingdom, was constrained by domestic politics to stop short of apologizing for Imperial Japan's brutal 1931-45 occupation of much of China. Many Chinese still painfully recall the period's atrocities...
...disadvantage because he was a product of public schools while Gore had mainly attended private schools. If the remark was intended to paint Quayle as a man of the people and his rival as a privileged elitist, it was disingenuous to say the least: both men sprang from well-known, well- heeled and politically active families. On his father's side, Quayle's family ran the Chicago Dowel Co., which produced Lincoln Logs. The Vice President's maternal grandfather, Eugene C. Pulliam, was a prosperous conservative publisher of newspapers in Arizona and Indiana. Gore's father, Al Gore...
Women from whose loins I sprang...
...summit's secretary-general, hopes ordinary people will force politicians to live up to the obligations articulated at Rio. He plans to make his own contribution to this grass-roots movement by heading an Earth Council, which he sees as a watchdog organization like the Helsinki Watch groups that sprang up after the 1975 Helsinki accords on human rights. The Earth Council's goal would be to ensure that institutions such as the Sustainable Development Commission actually do their...
...They will not get me up in the morning, dress me, give me words to say, tell me what to do and where to go." Rollins will run the day- to-day campaign while Jordan concentrates on strategy and themes. Demonstrating what are increasingly formidable political skills, Perot sprang the announcement the day after the California primary, thereby eclipsing what should have been Bill Clinton's afterglow of triumph. "I think one of the challenges for Ed and myself," said Jordan, "is not to try to fix something that's not broken...