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Chekiang, a rural province south of Shanghai. As a teenager, young Chou organized a student society called Ching-yeh lo-chün (meaning "Respect Work and Enjoy Group Life"). He studied Marxism in Japan, founded Chinese Communist youth groups in France and Germany. By the time he was 30...
Nicholas was dominated by his wife, his mother and near the end of the movie, even his young son denounces him for abdicating the throne. In fairness to Nicholas, it is improbable that any Tsar could have done much better given the conditions of Russia at the beginning of the...
Sir / There are three good arguments to be made against capital punishment that your Essay fails to mention. First, any prospective execution creates a sensationalism that makes manifest a morbid fascination with homicide. Second, execution has irreversible consequences that imprisonment does not have. This irreversible nature of the death sentence...
Sir / In your Essay on capital punishment, you claim that the Bible contradicts itself on this issue. You quote "Thou shall not kill" from Exodus 20:13 and "He that smiteth a man so that he die, shall be surely put to death" from the next chapter. There is no...
Those shrewd, buxom pillars of Ghanaian commerce, the market mammies, turned out by the thousands last week to celebrate the sudden, bloodless coup that had deposed the civilian government of Prime Minister Kofi Busia. Their faces powdered white with talcum and wood ash, the women carried placards supporting the military...