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...most striking achievement of this don't-rock-any-boats policy is a deal signed with Britain a year ago under which Peking in 1997 will assume sovereignty over Hong Kong on a pledge to maintain Hong Kong's wide-open, laissez-faire capitalist system for at least 50 years after that. Peking is now touting an even more lenient version of this "one nation, two systems" approach as a model for a reunification deal with Taiwan, which it once threatened to take by force. Peking proposes to let Taiwan retain not only a capitalist economy but independent armed forces...
...raise funds for vulnerable Republican candidates. Yet the President will probably be taking to the stump with mixed feelings. Whatever the outcome of the midterm race, it will mark the last election of his tenure and signal the real beginning of the presidential race to succeed him. With wide-open nomination battles all but certain in both major parties, the end of 1986 will usher in a two-year political hullabaloo that will increasingly drown out more measured discussions of how to handle the deficit, taxes and the critical challenges of the nuclear age. --By William R. Doerner. Reported...
...this because of the fast-paced, high-powered, wide-open “Billy Cleary Offense” people had hoped Donato would return to the Bright Hockey Center? Not really. Donato deserves recognition for many things, but credit must also be given to the defense Mazzoleni had pounded into place—a defense Donato and his coaching staff immediately recognized as the cornerstone of the team, and a defense that ended the year second in the nation, with an average of just 1.88 goals allowed per game...
Therein lies the rub. Larry Sanger, Wikipedia's former editor in chief (and now a lecturer at Ohio State) still loves the site but thinks his fellow professionals have a point. "The wide-open nature of the Internet encourages people to disregard the importance of expertise," he says. Sanger does not let his students use Wikipedia for their papers, partly because he knows they could confirm anything they like by adding it themselves...
...transition of Hilles from “library” to “library and student center” shouldn’t be overwhelmingly painful; after all, Hilles is equipped with a cinema in the basement (another vastly underused resource), a grille-style eatery with terraces and wide-open study spaces in the Penthouse, and plenty of built-in exhibition and office space (currently occupied by house tutors), not to mention very inviting grounds and a courtyard...