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...stave off the terrifying confrontation with reality for a few more years, some of us have committed ourselves to pursuing further education. We then find ourselves caught up in the dizzying swirl of applying to graduate school, law school, medical school and frightening combinations of the three...
Like Deng, who was hounded into exile by rampaging Red Guard demonstrators at the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Jiang believes only a strong hand can stave off chaos in China. Yet time may be running out on that formula. Even now, says Mineo Nakajima, a Sinologist at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, "Jiang is using the police and security forces to control social unrest, but he will have difficulty if it continues to escalate." The country's volatile economic situation and its corruption accentuate the widespread sense of unfairness, feeding the "red-eye disease"--envy...
...ultranationalist politicians including Vladimir Zhirinovsky, demagogues who captured the national spotlight by denouncing Yeltsin's half-finished experiment with reform and by promising a return to the stability and prestige Russians enjoyed during the days of the old Soviet Union. In the past two years, Yeltsin has managed to stave off numerous attempts by parliament to derail Russia's halting transition to democratic pluralism. But if the balance tips even further in this next election, it would severely challenge the ability of any President to continue using his office as a protective bulwark against a hostile legislature bent on dismantling...
...volleyball is also a game of momentum shifts, and the Crimson was able to put together a late rally, thanks to some timely slams by sophomore middle hitter Elissa Hart (13 kills, four blocks) that brought the score to 13-7. However, the Lady Knights manage to stave off the Crimson assault...
...spending by $1 trillion over seven years while providing some $245 billion in tax relief. What next? Vice President Al Gore told Larry King last night: "It will be vetoed in a flash." Despite such bravado, Tumulty notes, congressional Democrats have little faith in the President's commitment to stave off Republican demands when a compromise bill is worked out later this fall...