Word: politburo
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...resigned from his official positions and tried to retire, but Chinese tradition and the ethos of the Communist Party conspire to force him to rule, or pretend to rule, until the moment he is pronounced dead. While he lingers, dozens of party elders, senior military leaders, provincial kingpins and Politburo members are maneuvering for influence, and the country and the world watch to see who will lead China's 1.2 billion people...
...there is one likely future challenger to Jiang it is Qiao Shi, 71, chairman of the National People's Congress and a member of the Politburo's inner standing committee. Though the Congress has always been a rubber stamp for the party, Qiao is making a serious effort to turn it into a functioning legislature--and in the process use it as a power base. Some experts believe Qiao has liberalizing tendencies...
...Kiet, 74, the question is how much communism they can get away with jettisoning. A recent internal party poll showed that 47% of the government's top bureaucrats would just as soon have some other system. But so far, no one knows what that might be. "The politburo keeps talking about evils like peaceful evolution [the gradual erosion of communist control]," says a party economist. "There is only one evil: low growth...
...People's Congress. Described as a "mystery man" because of his service in China's shadowy intelligence service, Qiao is a contender because he commands strategic loyalties among generals, police and party conservatives. He is also virtually untarnished by the Tiananmen massacre; unofficial accounts say he abstained from a Politburo vote on whether to send in the military. His leadership abilities and attempt to bring some clout to the traditionally rubber-stamp Congress will be put to the test when it meets in March...
Currently playing a limited run off-off-Broadway (other productions are slated for Baltimore, Pittsburgh and elsewhere), Slavs! is a series of sketches held together mostly by its cross-pollinating cast of eccentrics. They include the passionate Politburo member identified as the World's Oldest Living Bolshevik (first seen in Angels), the ferociously bored lesbian (Marisa Tomei, in a sly, engaging performance) who guards the aforementioned brains, and an eight-year-old girl whose grandparents were exposed to radiation and passed down to her a genetic flaw that has rendered her mute...