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...years have passed since the world watched rapt as a slightly built man carried his grocery bags out into the middle of Beijing's main thoroughfare to face down the convoy of tanks sent to crush the democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Now people who make similarly "crazy" choi-ces are by and large dismissed as extremists, anachronisms or lunatics irrelevant to China's political development, or as quaint idealists tragically out of step with the progress of their nation. Ian Buruma's Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing (Random House; 367 pages) deftly refutes this increasingly...
...years ago the government department was forced to share its home in Littauer with the growing economics department. Since then, government faculty has been forced to inhabit make-shift offices scattered around the campus. government professors currently occupy space in Littauer, Coolidge Hall, the Center for European Studies (CES) and the Kennedy School of Government, and they are anything but happy about this change in scenery...
...offices in the same building. I rarely see the colleagues that are not in my building.” Blackbourn is sympathetic to the government department’s space dilemma. While the history department’s headquarters in Robinson Hall, professors have office space in Coolidge and CES as well. Blackbourn calls the history department a “friendly place to work,” but acknowledges that the geographic reality limits the ability of the department to get together as a whole...
...This is an extraordinarily happy occasion for us.” said CES Director Peter A. Hall, who is also Thomson Professor of Government...