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Just so you know where they stand, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday declare in the very first sentence of their impeccably detailed biography of Mao Zedong that he "was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other 20th-century leader." And that's one of the more positive things they have to say about the man who is still widely revered as the founder of modern China. To Chang and Halliday, Mao was a scheming opportunist who butchered his way to the top, then squandered the lives and wealth of his people in a bungled...
...means projected to stand up against Witten, Chu managed a tiebreak victory against the higher-ranked opponent...
...Limpert’s contribution to the museum has continued to stand out. Membership at MoMA shot past 50,000 during his tenure, annual giving rates more than tripled, and the museum raised more than $50 million for its 50th anniversary capital campaign...
...human responsibility to machine,” Elliott Perkins ’23, Master of Lowell House and Secretary of the Master’s Council, told The Crimson in 1955, “and I hope the University will continue to have men make their own decisions and stand by them...
...late 1940s and early 1950s, The Crimson came to stand out from the ranks of most university newspapers for its coverage of McCarthy’s communist hunts and other questions of academic freedom...