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...public in a Western tie and jacket, the first high official to do so since the Cultural Revolution. Like most of China's present leaders, Zhao was brutalized by the Red Guards. In 1967 he was paraded through the streets of Canton in a dunce's cap and denounced as "a stinking remnant of the landlord class." He has come a long way from that parade, and in the process has effected a more substantive revolution of his own. His agricultural reforms as governor of Sichuan (among them: allowing peasants to keep some profits) increased productivity...
...cap the evening, Lyle lit a fine cigar. In his new life, he said, talking to his guests was the part he liked best. He raised his snifter, and when he drank, the snifter pushed his half-spectacles from the tip of his nose to the bridge. When he removed the snifter, the eyeglasses slid back, like a beginning skier on a beginners slope...
Some of the most zealous Buckeye fans are the band members who cap their halftime show each week. While playing the school's fight song, they march out the word Ohio. The greatest honor a band member can receive is to dot the "I" in "Ohio" during the Michigan game. "Dotting the "I" has been a goal of mine for 12 years and to get to do it at the Michigan game is just incredible," says one of this year's co-"I"-dotters senior sousaphone player Brad McDavid...
...diminished. No liberal conspiracy has subverted President Reagan, but the Administration's moderates have indeed moved toward control of foreign policymaking. True, Weinberger, an unswerving hawk and Reagan intimate, remains feisty and powerful. But Clark will not be lumbering into the Oval Office every day, instinctively pushing Cap's and Kirkpatrick's schemes. The flow of ideas into the White House under McFarlane, a cool technocrat, will surely be more orderly, and perhaps more balanced...
...with the contradictions of a tempestuous man. He was often inexcusably vicious in his writings (he wrote, for instance, that one princely foe was a "fainthearted wretch and fearful sissy" who should "do nothing but stand like a eunuch, that is, a harem guard, in a fool's cap with a fly swatter"). Yet he was kindly in person and so generous to the needy that his wife despaired of balancing the household budget. When the plague struck Wittenberg and others fled, he stayed behind to minister to the dying. He was a powerful spiritual author, yet his words...