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...Van Winkle had dozed off in the 1950s, he might not have felt completely out of place waking up at the annual meeting of China's parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), which wrapped up a week-long session on Tuesday. Here was Premier Wen Jiabao intoning the importance of "building a new socialist countryside." There were education officials unveiling a campaign to publish dozens of new Marxist university textbooks. NPC delegates, who had dutifully attended mandatory sessions to study speeches by Chairman Mao, even failed to pass a Western-style property rights law because, in part, Party leftists...
...Says Cheng: "Even if the criticism comes from the left, it's still criticism, and the leadership will try to stop it at all costs." So even if the country isn't really reverting to socialism, there's at least one trait that Comrade Van Winkle will find familiar in this crop of Chinese leaders: a continuing aversion to dissent...
...middle of his meeting with department chairs last Wednesday, Derek C. Bok joked that he felt a bit like Rip van Winkle...
PARIS Hervé Van der Straeten designed the case for Guerlain's best-selling lipstick, KissKiss ($26), in Grenat...
Entering the fifteen-passenger van that picked me up from the airport, and quickly nodding and saying “hello” to the other five players inside, marked the end of normalcy...