Word: apparatchik
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Like Ross G. Douthat ’02, I am disturbed that the Graduate School of Design has appointed “an apparatchik from a totalitarian state [Castro’s Cuba]” to be a visiting professor. However, the existence of a double standard that forgives the collaboration of leftists while anathemizing rightists is not at all obvious to me. During the Cold War, scholars who collaborated with right-wing dictatorships were welcome at Harvard. (Tellingly, in 1968, the University granted an honorary doctorate to Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the shahanshah of Iran...
...problem with this. Substitute Coyula-Cowley for Speer (and Castro for Hitler), and the quotes above represent the view of Jorge I. Dominguez, Clarence Dillon professor of international affairs, and Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack, respectively, on the advisability of appointing an apparatchik from a totalitarian state to the Harvard faculty. To them, you can add the names of Steve Reifenberg, director of the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, who is “enormously pleased to have him here,” and Professor of History James T. Kloppenberg, who told The Crimson...
...Cast as The Heavy in the courtside drama is CBA chief Xin Lancheng, a fortysomething Communist Party apparatchik who "wouldn't go to a basketball game unless it was his job," according to one industry insider. Xin, who missed the first half of the season to attend Communist Party school, admits to no great passion for hoops. "If I had things my way, I would be a full-time painter of traditional Chinese landscapes," he says. But he defends the system with the ardor of a Red Guard. "The CBA should earn the money and distribute it equally...
...newest tiger economy. Transparency, or the lack of it, has held Vietnam back. The country is ruled by a secretive group of former revolutionaries who have trouble understanding the notions of law and order so integral to germinating a market economy. Manh, though a dyed-in-the-wool apparatchik, could change that. Talking openly about himself?and denying a pretty glamorous lineage?is only part of Manh's new look for the party. Manh is on the record as wanting to change Vietnam from a diktat society to one governed by a legal code that applies equally to everyone...
...Aoki, who briefly stepped in as interim leader, to reveal the full extent of the Prime Minister's illness. Whether Mori can inspire trust and move the country along the path of badly needed financial and economic reforms remains to be seen. His 31-year career as a party apparatchik and former Education Minister and Trade Minister provides no evidence of any ideological convictions. Even members of his party struggled to find words to laud their new leader. "We don't have any qualified candidates, so he'll have to do," said Kazuo Aichi, an L.D.P. member of parliament...