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...main preoccupations of the Chinese Communist Party. Top party official Zhou Enlai reported that 830,000 “enemies of the people” were destroyed in three years. Mao himself bragged of killing tens of thousands of scholars and executing over 800,000 landlords during the 1950s. Another high-level administrative report stated that nine million peasants were executed during one two-year period and 15 million Chinese were intentionally exterminated in another three-year period. A conservative estimate places all the murders under Mao at 35 million, although various experts, refugees and communist officials place the number...
...Even painkillers may be a risk, he says. "We tend to think it's a combination of smaller factors that accumulate," adds Cupid. "The trouble is that these studies are dotted all around the world, and it's hard to compare the data." When Guido Vincenzi played in the 1950s and '60s, there were often no substitutes on hand in case of injury. "They just stayed in, otherwise their team would be down to 10 men," said Daniela Cantamessa Vincenzi, whose husband died of ALS in 1997 at age 64. Vincenzi doesn't question the injections given to her husband...
...People were more surprised than anything else,” Soriano says. “It has been since at least the 1950s that there were two or more Harvard players going into the draft...
...American Terrorist by Alston S. Chase ’57, who contends that the college’s General Education Program, the precursor to today’s Core Curriculum, may have pushed Kaczynski into his bombing campaign. The Core has been long-reviled some students, but could its 1950s predecessor have moulded one of the most disaffected and violent minds in recent memory? Chase has long answered an emphatic “yes,” having initially floated his theory in a June 2000 Atlantic Monthly article before publishing this book...
...Chase’s analysis, Kaczynski went wrong as a result of the Gen Ed curriculum, the brainchild of Harvard President James B. Conant in the 1950s. As with today’s Core, the program was devoted to educating students in a variety of academic areas, but unlike the Core, Chase argues, the Gen Ed curriculum had particularly deleterious effects...