Word: zemin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last winter, when a Chinese instead of a South African flag flew over Harvard Yard, no one was giving Jiang Zemin any honorary degrees. He came on a cold day with rain falling like freezing spikes, and thousands of protesters greeted his fleet of black limousines before he was safely delivered to Sanders Theatre. Like Mandela's speech, the content of Jiang's was largely irrelevant. The Chinese president's visit, also like Mandela's, was preceded by speeches from a flock of Harvard professors...
...people to whom we feel a need to react. They represent something important to us, whether something we admire or something we scorn. For that reason, of all the highnesses and holinesses that have appeared on our campus in recent years, two were exceptional: Nelson Mandela and Jiang Zemin...
Unlike Russian President Boris Yeltsin, President Jiang Zemin maintains tight political control. The reform-minded Zhu might take some heat if the currency sinks, but in contrast to the unruly Duma, China's pliant National People's Congress is not going to threaten a constitutional crisis...
Controversial Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visit to Harvard Cambridge last November saw exceptionally tight security, on a scale usually reserved for U.S. presidents...
...warnings, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thumbs his nose at the peace process and Saddam Hussein continues to harass U.N. arms inspectors in Iraq. And the President's China visit--which seemed so triumphant, what with his televised human-rights debate in Beijing and lavish praise for President Jiang Zemin--was immediately followed by a Chinese crackdown on 20 dissidents and an embarrassed admission from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that the Chinese are moving backward on human rights. Great Presidents get other people to do great things...