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...attendant chaos, taken in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev. Hu's key policy initiative so far has been to strengthen, not weaken, the role of the Communist Party in Chinese life. "They believe the party is the only way that China can maintain political stability," says a China watcher in the U.S. government. "Political institutions outside the party are not to be trusted." In essence, the thinking goes, party discipline guarantees stability, which in turn breeds national strength...
...result—a normal Russia—was well worth the social price paid during the turbulent 1990s. The book is also predictably economics-centric, and if you’re not comfortable pretending to understand regressions, you may want to steer clear. But even the casual Kremlin watcher will appreciate the surprisingly accessible final chapter, which should be required reading for any class on modern Russia. Americans have been used to thinking of Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma” ever since Churchill coined the phrase; a dose...
...glowing actor afterward. "We did well together." Of her much discussed clothes, Couturier Geoffrey Beene observed in the New York Times: "Some of the design is not on target to me as a professional, but who cares? Her presence overcomes any banalities of dress." The London Express's royal watcher Jean Rook concluded, "She has given America what it craved, glamour, glitz . . . Dianasty." There were some fluffed lines, to be sure. At the White House banquet, President Reagan introduced her first as "Princess David," then "Princess Diane." For his part, Charles spoke briefly and sat down, forgetting for a second...
...course, possible that Coke can turn its near disaster into a marketing coup. The company now has two Cokes to compete with Pepsi-Cola, as an industry watcher pointed out--one that tastes like Coke and one that tastes like Pepsi. And since the soft-drink maker will still be selling new Coke, none of the millions of dollars spent to launch that product has been wasted. If anything, the furor created by the flavor change has made Coke more of a household word than ever...
DIED. ERNST MAYR, 100, leading evolutionary biologist of the 20th century; in Bedford, Mass. Born in Germany, he became an avid bird watcher and turned away from a planned medical career to natural history. In the 1930s and '40s, he integrated the newly emerging field of genetics with Darwin's insights on evolution, showing how species arise when groups of similar organisms become separated--often by geography--and then accumulate genetic differences that no longer allow them to interbreed...