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Anticipating renovations and the selection of a new director, one of the world’s wealthiest university museums will draw up blueprints for its future in the coming months...
...Unemployment is high and rising, and economic inequalities are widening more rapidly in China than in any other major country. Many Chinese complain that corruption is worse now than under Chiang Kai-shek. The impulse to address this is seen in the recent arrest of some of China's wealthiest citizens and those accused of being their official patrons. The political system desperately needs reform. And China's leadership will take time to gel?even though now, with his key prot?g? Zeng Qinghong apparently ready to accede to the Politburo's Standing Committee, Jiang appears increasingly likely to step down...
...major cause of the underpopulation is that a large percentage of families, most notably in the whitest, wealthiest neighborhoods in Cambridge, choose to send their children to private schools. As a result, public schools have seen a sharp decrease in the number of students, whereas schools in more working-class areas remain a popular choice for blue-collar parents. This disparity comes in the wake of Cantabridgian rent-control abolition; as many working families who sent their children to public schools were driven out by steadily increasing costs of living, gentrification ensued and private school enrollment became more competitive...
...aberration? Probably. Will the admissions office take measures to better convince black students that Harvard is where they want to be? Definitely. We’re lucky, because here in the wealthiest, most prestigious university in the country, the debate is over—diversity is important, desirable and necessary...
...DIED. WALTER ANNENBERG, 94, publishing magnate, philanthropist and art connoisseur; in Wynnewood, Pa. After inheriting the Philadelphia Inquirer from his father, he founded two hit magazines, Seventeen in 1944 and TV Guide in 1953. One of the world's wealthiest men (estimated net worth: $4 billion), Annenberg served as ambassador to the Court of St. James's under Nixon and sometimes used his journalistic clout to settle political and personal scores. He once barred his TV stations from airing a documentary critical of Nixon. Among his gifts: a $1 billion collection of Impressionist paintings to New York City's Metropolitan...