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...make room for younger leaders, eight of the Politburo's 14 members, are to retire; all are over 65. Among them: President Yang Shangkun, Vice Premier Yao Yilin and Defense Minister Qin Jiwei. None of this indicates that China's rulers are contemplating any political relaxation. Yang and others who are leaving the Politburo will retain their government positions and their grip on power...
...never took place, and that such an accusation is unjustified, irresponsible, unacceptable, and of questionable motivation. Sam Ferrell '95, Nicholas Gordon '95, Raiko Mancini '92, Duane Moles '95, Philip Munger '93, Grigore Pop Eleches '95, Anne Richards '95, Konstantions Tsakonas '93, Karen Todd '95, Julian von Loesch '93, Terry Yang...
...remote location and cannot visit an expert in person, he merely mails a slip of paper with his name written on it, and the practitioner performs both the diagnosis and the cure -- an exotic hand-and-body dance designed to "re-establish the balance of yin and yang" -- from any distance away. Thousands of visitors pour into the Philippine Islands to have local sleight- of-hand artists apparently dip bare-handed into their body to remove cancerous tumors. They dip into their bank accounts rather dramatically...
...subject of welfare, Clinton, the moderate Southerner, is yin to Cuomo's Northeastern liberal yang. In Clinton's world, there is not a program for every problem. He cut Arkansas' relief rolls 7%, and part of his platform is to restrict payments to chronic recipients. He favors cuts not only to save money but because living on the dole can instill self-destructive values. Welfare, says Clinton, "should be a second chance, not a way of life." He tells dependent mothers to stop having children if they're not prepared to support them, because "governments don't raise children, people...
...Sino-U.S. relations will have to wait until a new generation takes over in Beijing. The old men in charge there now, like those in Vietnam and North Korea, are veterans of the revolutions that put Marxism in power. They intend to hold sway until they die. President Yang, 84, reportedly told his colleagues that the Soviet Union fell apart because it had no "old revolutionaries" left...